[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28544-28545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13026]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Department of Justice policy, 28 CFR 50.7, 
notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in the action 
entitled United States of America v. Shell Oil Company and Motiva 
Enterprises LLC, Civil Action No. 3:01CV00093 RNC (D. Conn.), was 
lodged on April 27, 2001 with the United States District Court for the 
District of Connecticut. The proposed consent decree resolves claims of 
the United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, under Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7411 
and 7412, its implementing federal regulations, and the Connecticut 
State Implementation Plan, against defendants Shell Oil Company and 
Motiva Enterprises LLC. These claims are for injunctive relief and 
civil penalties arising from defendants' alleged violations of the 
Clean Air Act, its implementing regulations, and the State 
Implementation Plan in connection with their operation of a bulk 
gasoline terminal located within the Towns of Bridgeport and Stratford, 
Connecticut.
    Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the defendants: (1) 
Will pay a civil penalty of $390,155 to the United States; (2) will 
purchase and permanently retire twenty-two tons worth of nitrogen oxide 
emission reduction credits during ozone season, to be purchased in 
either Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, or Rhode

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Island; (3) have ceased operation of loading bay no. 5 at the gasoline 
terminal as of December 28, 2000, and are permanently enjoined from 
resuming any further operation of that loading bay until and unless 
they obtain the appropriate operating permit from the Connecticut 
Department of Environmental Protection; and (4) are permanently 
enjoined from loading gasoline or other volatile organic compounds into 
barges at the terminal without use of a vapor collection and disposal 
system.
    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, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Shell Oil Company and Motiva Enterprises LLC, Civil Action 
No. 3:01V00093 RNC (D. Conn.), DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-06921.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 157 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut 
06510, or at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress 
Street, Suite 1100, Boston, Massachusetts 02114-2023. A copy may be 
obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, U.S. Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044-
7611. In requesting a copy by mail, please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $3.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs for the Decree) made payable to Consent Decree 
Library.

Ronald Gluck,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and 
Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 01-13026 Filed 5-22-01; 8:45 am]
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