[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 73585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33834]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on December 17, 1999, a proposed consent decree in 
United States v. Titanium Metals Corporation, CV-9-98-00682-HDM (RLH) 
(D. Nev.), was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Nevada. The proposed consent decree would resolve pending 
claims of the United States against Titanium Metals Corporation 
(``TIMET''), in the above-referenced action.
    The Complaint in the above-referenced civil action seeks injunctive 
relief and civil penalties for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, 
42 U.S.C. Sec. 7413(b), at TIMET's titanium manufacturing plant in 
Henderson, Nevada. The complaint alleges that TIMET installed a carbon 
monoxide (``CO'') burner at its plant prior to obtaining either a 
Prevention of Significant Deterioration or minor source permit. The 
installation of the burner in reduced emissions of CO, but increased 
the facility's potential to emit sulfur dioxide (``SO2''). 
Under the proposed Decree, TIMET has agreed to install the Best 
Available Control Technology to control SO2 emissions, 
enforceable limits on CO and SO2 emissions, and payment of a 
civil penalty of $430,000 over a two year period.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States 
v. Titanium Metals Corporation, CV-8-87-00682 (D. Nev.), and the 
Department of Justice Reference No. 90-5-2-1-2235.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, 701 East Bridger, 
8th Floor, Las Vegas, NV 89101; and at the Region IX Office of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105. A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be 
obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 
P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please refer 
to DJ #90-5-2-1-2235, and enclose a check in the amount of $7.75 (31 
pages at 25 cents per page for reproduction costs). Make checks payable 
to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-33834 Filed 12-29-99; 8:45 am]
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