[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 180 (Monday, September 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48065-48066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-23168]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act
In accordance with Departmental policy and 28 CFR 50.7, the
Department of Justice gives notice that a proposed amendment to the
Consent Decree previously approved and entered by the Court in the case
captioned United States v. Metropolitian Council, Civil Action No. 99-
CV-1105 (D. Minn.) was lodged with the United States District Court for
the District of Minnesota on September 4, 2001. The United States filed
a Complaint in 1999 alleging violations of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.
7401 et seq., by the Metropolitan Council (``Met'') at its wastewater
treatment plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. The United States and Met
settled those claims on terms set forth in a Consent Decree lodged with
the Court on August 11, 2000. The court entered an Order on February 6,
2001 approving that Consent Decree, and signed the Consent Decree on
March 16, 2001.
By agreement between the United States and Met, the existing
Consent Decree would be amended to substitute a proposed Amended
Appendix C, which would describe a modified Supplemental Environmental
Project to be performed by Met under the Consent Decree. No other terms
of the Consent Decree would change. The existing Appendix C to the
Consent Decree requires that Met expend at least $1.6 million for a
Supplemental Environmental Project to add a dry electrostatic
precipitator to the air pollution control train of one of the new
fluidized bed incinerators to be installed at Met's facility. The
proposed Amended Appendix C describes an improved substitute
Supplemental Environmental Project, requiring installation of a fabric
filter system (rather than a dry electrostatic precipitator) to the air
pollution control train of one of the new fluidized bed incinerators at
Met's facility. Met and its consultants believe that the fabric filter
technology outlined in the Amended Appendix C would result in increased
removal of key pollutants, including particulate matter and mercury.
Met and its consultants estimate that the total cost of the fabric
filter technology would exceed $1.6 million, and would be approximately
the same as the cost of a dry electrostatic precipitator. Based on its
review of the information provided by Met, the Environmental Protection
Agency agrees that the substitute Supplemental Environmental Project is
appropriate.
For a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this publication,
the Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the
proposed amendment to the existing Consent Decree. Comments should be
addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611,
Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v.
Metropolitan Council, Civil Action No. 99-CV-1105 (D. Minn.), and DOJ
Reference Number 90-5-2-1-2243.
A copy of the Consent Decree and proposed Amended Appendix C to the
Consent Decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of the United States
Attorney for the District of Minnesota, U.S. Courthouse--Room 600, 300
South Fourth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415 (contact Friedrich
Siekert (612-664-5600)); and (2) the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604
(contact Mary McAuliffe (312-886-6237)). Copies may also be obtained by
mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box
7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting copies, please refer to
the above-referenced case name and DOJ Reference Numbers, and enclose a
check made payable to the Consent Decree Library for $9.25 for the
Consent Decree and the proposed Amended Appendix C to the Consent
Decree (37 pages at 25 cents per page
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reproduction cost) or a check for $0.25 for the Amended Appendix C
alone.
William D. Brighton,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
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