[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63256-63257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30157]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990

    In accordance with Departmental policy, notice is hereby given that 
a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Equilon Pipeline Company, 
LLC, et al., (``Settling Defendants''), Civil Action No. H- 01 3171, 
was lodged on September 17, 2001, with the United States District Court 
for the Southern District of Texas.
    In this action the United States and the State of Texas, pursuant 
to Section 1002 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, (``OPA''), 33 U.S.C. 
2702, seek natural resource damages, including assessment costs, 
arising out of the discharge of oil and gasoline into the navigable 
waters of the United States and the State of Texas in the vicinity of 
the San Jacinto River on or about October 20, 1994.
    The proposed Consent Decree provides for the Defendant's purchase 
of about 100 acres of replacement property and payment of $250,000, to 
be used to construct estuarine and freshwater habitat. That payment 
will also produce about $30,000 for management by the

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Trustees of a mixed forest habitat preservation site to be acquired by 
the Defendants.
    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, 
P.O. Box 7611, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 
20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Equilon Pipeline 
Company, LLC, et al., DOJ Ref. 90-5-1-1-4376/1.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas, 911 Travis Street, 
Suite 1500, Houston, Texas 77208. A copy of the Consent Decree may also 
be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, 
United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611. In 
requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $6.50 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Tom Mariani,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-30157 Filed 12-4-01; 8:45 am]
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