[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 58 (Friday, March 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 15923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7296]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Emergency Planning 
and Community Right-to-Know Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in the case of United 
States and Communities for a Better Environment v. Sorenson 
Engineering, Inc., Civil Action No. EDCV 96-444-RT (VAPx) (C.D. Cal.), 
was lodged with the United States District Court for the Central 
District of California on March 2, 2000.
    The proposed consent decree resolves claims that the United States 
asserted against Sorenson Engineering, Inc. in a civil complaint in 
intervention filed concurrently with the lodging of the consent decree. 
The complaint in intervention alleges that Sorenson failed to timely 
submit a toxic chemical release form for nitric acid and phosphoric 
acid in each year from 1990 through 1995, in violation of the 
requirements of section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community 
Right-to-know Act, 42 U.S.C. 11023.
    The proposed consent decree requires defendant to pay a civil 
penalty of $32,500. In addition, defendant is required to undertake two 
supplemental environmental projects to reduce tetrachloroethylene 
(perchloroethylene) emissions and to eliminate hexavalent chromium 
emissions at defendant's facility in Yucaipa, California. Finally, 
defendant is required to pay $20,000 to Communities for a Better 
Environment (CBE) in payment of CBE's attorney's fees and costs in this 
action.
    The Department of Justice will accept comments relating to this 
consent decree for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this 
publication. Address your comments to the Assistant Attorney General 
for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and send a copy to the Environmental 
Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 301 Howard Street, 
Suite 870, San Francisco, CA 94105, Attn: Robert Mullaney. Your 
comments should refer to United States and Communities for a Better 
Environment v. Sorenson Engineering, Inc., Civil Action No. EDCV 96-
444-RT (VAPx) (C.D. Cal.), and DOJ No. 90-11-2-06467.
    You may examine the proposed consent decree at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, Room 7516, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, 
California 90012. You may also obtain a copy of the consent decree by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 
20044. Your request for a copy of the consent decree should refer to 
United States and Communities for a Better Environment v. Sorenson 
Engineering, Inc., Civil Action No. EDCV 96-444-RT (VAPx) (D.C. Cal.), 
and DOJ No. 90-11-2-06467, and must include a check for $4.50 (25 cents 
per page reproduction cost) payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-7296 Filed 3-23-00; 8:45 am]
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