[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 80 (Thursday, April 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20549-20550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10120]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a Consent Decree in United States v. Hi-Noon 
Petroleum, Inc., Civil Action No. CV 02-27-GF-CSO, was lodged on April 
3, 2002, with the United States District Court for the District of 
Montana. The Consent Decree resolves the claims of the United States 
under Section 9006 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 
(RCRA), 42 U.S.C. 6991e, for violations of the federal RCRA Underground 
Storage Tank (UST) regulations, 40 CFR Part 280 at the P&M Convenience 
Store in Browning, Montana. In the attached Consent Decree, Hi-Noon 
Petroleum will pay a penalty of $23,125.00 to the United States. Hi-
Noon will spend an additional $69,375.00 on a Supplemental 
Environmental Project which conforms to EPA's Supplemental 
Environmental Projects Policy.
    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, 
Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Hi-Noon 
Petroleum, Inc., DOJ REF. #90-7-1-06937.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 2929 3rd Ave. North, Suite 400, Billings, MT 59101, 
and at U.S. EPA Region VII (8ENF-L), 999 18th Street, Suite #300, 
Denver, CO 80202-2466. A copy of the Consent Decree may

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also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy 
from the Consent Decree Library, please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $5.50 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost), payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Robert Brook,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-10120 Filed 4-24-02; 8:45 am]
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