[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46949-46950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19384]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under The Clean Air 
Act

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 20, 2000, a Consent Decree in 
United States, Plaintiff, and States of Arkansas, Louisiana, and south 
Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, Plaintiff-
Intervenors v. Willamette Industries, Inc. Civil Action No. CV-00-1001-
HA, was lodged in the United States District Court for the District of 
Oregon.
    In this action the United States and the Plaintiff-Intervenors 
sought injunctive relief and civil penalties under Section 113(b) of 
the Clean Air Act (``CAA''), 42 U.S.C. 7413(b) against Willamette 
Industries, Inc. (``Willamette''). The alleged violations include the 
failure to install pollution control devices and obtain permits, 
required by the CAA, at wood product manufacturing facilities owned and 
operated by Willamette in: Emerson and Malvern Arkansas; Dodson, 
Ruston, Zwolle, Lillie, Taylor and Simsboro Louisiana; Bend, Eugene, 
Foster, Springfield and Sweet Home Oregon, and Chester South Carolina. 
The Consent Decree resolves all of these claims. The Consent Decree 
requires Willamette to pay a civil penalty of just over $11.2 million, 
to perform Supplemental Environmental Projects costing at least $8 
million, to install pollution control devices on its facilities, and to 
perform environmental audits of its facilities.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to 
the proposed Consent Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of 
publication of this notice. Please address comments to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
D.C. 20044 and refer to United States et al. v. Willamette Industries, 
Inc., Civil Action No. CV-00-1001-HA (D. Oregon), DJ # 90-5-2-1-2186.
    Copies of the Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, 1000 S.W. Third 
Ave., Suite 600, Portland OR 97204. An electronic copy of the Consent 
Decree is available online at: http://es.epa.gov/oeca/ore/aed/willamette/index.html. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be 
obtained by mail at the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 
P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044. When requesting a copy of the 
proposed modification to the Consent Decree by mail, please enclose a 
check in the amount of $12.75 (twenty-five cents per page reproduction 
costs) payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 00-19384 Filed 7-31-00; 8:45 am]
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