[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44376-44377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-21324]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United 
States v. Gulf Oil L.P., and Catamount Management Co., Civ. No. 
3:98CV2226 (AVC), was lodged on July 5, 2001 with the United States 
District Court for the District of Connecticut. The consent decree 
would resolve this action as the Gulf Oil, L.P.

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and Catamount Management Co., as a general partner in Gulf Oil L.P., 
(collectively, ``Gulf''), against whom the United States asserted a 
claim for penalties on behalf of the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency under 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq., the Connecticut State 
Implementation Plan, authorized pursuant to Section 110 of the Act, 42 
U.S.C. 7210, and the New Source Performance Standards for Bulk Gasoline 
Terminals (``NSPS''), 40 CFR Part 60, Subpart XX, for violations which 
took place at a bulk gasoline terminal in New Haven, Connecticut. The 
Complaint, which was filed in November 1998, seeks penalties for (1) 
failure to apply for and obtain valid pre-construction and operating 
permits for changes made to gas loading bays in 1993; (2) failure to 
conduct performance tests of emissions of volatile organic compound 
(``VOCs'') from the Terminal in 1994; (3) failure to apply for and 
obtain permits to construct and operate one of its liquid storage tanks 
(Tank 1 13) at the Terminal; (4) emission of excess VOCs from on or 
about March 7, 1997, through on or about March 10, 1997; and (5) 
failure to maintain emission controls according to good air pollution 
practices. Under the Consent Decree, Gulf will pay $40,000 in a civil 
penalty, and will perform supplemental environmental projects 
(``SEPs'') designed to reduce VOC emissions at Gulf facilities at a 
minimum cost of $421,000. Gulf will be required to limit gasoline 
throughput so as to qualify as a minor source of VOCs, and to apply to 
the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (``CT DEP'') for 
a permit amendment that restricts its potential emissions to minor 
source levels. For the SEPS, Gulf will make improvements to gasoline 
storage tanks at its facilities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, 
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
    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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 
7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and 
should refer to United States v. Gulf Oil L.P. and Catamount Management 
Co., DOJ Ref. # 90-5-2-1-06457.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 157 Church 
Street, 23rd Floor, New Haven, Connecticut 06510 (contact Assistant 
United States Attorney Carolyn Ikari); and the Region I Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1 Congress Street, Suite 1100, Boston, 
Massachusetts 02114-2023 (contact Senior Enforcement Counsel, Thomas T. 
Olivier). A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained by mail 
from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-
7611. In requesting a copy please refer to the reference case and 
enclose a check in the amount of $6.25 (25 cents per page reproduction 
costs) for the Consent Decree without Appendices, or in the amount of 
$7.00 for the Consent Decree with all Appendices, payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section; Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-21324 Filed 8-22-01; 8:45 am]
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