[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 151 (Monday, August 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40658-40659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19734]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging a Joint Stipulation of Settlement Pursuant to
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C.
Sec. 6973(d), notice is hereby given that on July 25, 1996, a proposed
modification of consent decree in United States v. Dale Valentine, et
al., Civil Action No. 93CV1005J, was lodged with the United States
District Court for the District of Wyoming.
The complaint filed by the United States on February 19, 1993,
seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties under Section 7003 of the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973.
The complaint alleges that an abandoned oil reprocessing facility near
Glenrock, Wyoming, commonly known as Powder River Crude Processors or
Big Muddy Oil Processors (the ``Site''), may present an imminent and
substantial endangerment to human health or the environment. The
complaint seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties for violations of
administrative orders issued by EPA under Section 7003 of RCRA for a
cleanup of the Site.
Under a Consent Decree entered by the U.S. District Court for the
District of Wyoming on June 21, 1994, five defendants (Texaco Refining
and Marketing, Inc., Conoco Pipe Line Company, True Oil Company,
Eighty-Eight Oil Company, and Phillips Petroleum Company) agreed to pay
a civil penalty of $300,000 for their past violations of the
administrative orders and agreed to perform a clean up of the Site,
designed to address conditions at the Site which may present an
imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment. The
proposed modification of this Consent Decree provides that one of the
performance standard for soils more than three feet below the ground
surface will be changed from a standard of less than 100 ppm Total
Petroleum Hydrocarbons to a standard of less than 3.3 ppm
benzo(a)pyrene.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed modification of settlement. Comments should be addressed to
the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources
Division, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station,
Washington, DC 20044, and should refer to United States v. Dale
Valentine, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-7-1-692. In accordance with Section
7003(d) of RCRA, commenters can also request a public meeting in the
affected area.
The proposed modification may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, 3rd Floor, Federal
Building, 111 South Wolcott, Casper, Wyoming 82601; the United States
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street--Suite 500,
Denver, Colo. 80202-2466; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 ``G''
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of
the proposed modification
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may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library,
1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a
copy, please refer to the referenced case and number, and enclose a
check in the amount of $3.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs),
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-19734 Filed 8-2-96; 8:45 am]
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