[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 227 (Friday, November 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 70611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29980]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Pursuant to 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that a proposed 
consent decree embodying a settlement in United States v. Foster 
Poultry Farms, No. CIV 00-6869 OWW DLB, was lodged on November 1, 2000, 
with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
California.
    In a complaint filed concurrently with the lodging of the consent 
decree, the United States seeks penalties, pursuant to the Emergency 
Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), 42 U.S.C. 11045, 
alleging that the defendant failed to submit a Form R reporting that it 
manufactured, processed, or otherwise used various toxic chemicals for 
numerous facilities in California and Oregon.
    Under the proposed consent decree, the settling defendant has 
agreed to spend a minimum of $549,000 performing supplemental 
environmental projects, including the installation and operation of 
automated anhydrous ammonia leak detection devices at five of its 
facilities, and the installation and operation of an ammonia 
refrigeration valve control system at one of its facilities. Settling 
defendant has also agreed to pay a civil penalty in the amount of 
$125,000 within thirty days of the entry of the consent decree by the 
District Court.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Box 7611 Ben Franklin Station, Washington, 
D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Foster Poultry 
Farms, DOJ Ref. #90-11-2-06483.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1130 O 
Street, Fresno, California 93721. A copy of the proposed consent decree 
may also be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent 
Decree Library, Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-
7611. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and 
enclose a check in the amount of $4.75 (25 cents per page reproduction 
costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library. A copy of the decree, 
exclusive of the signature pages and the attachments, may be obtained 
for $3.50.

Walker Smith,
Principal Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, 
Environmental and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-29980 Filed 11-22-00; 8:45 am]
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