[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 53 (Thursday, March 18, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 12867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6059]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

     In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that on March 4, 2004, a proposed consent decree in United 
States and Kansas Department of Health and Environment, ex rel. State 
of Kansas v.  Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC and 
Coffeyville Resources Terminal, LLC, Docket No. 04-1064-MLB, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. In 
this action brought pursuant to the Clean Air Act (``CAA'') and the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), the United States 
has requested the imposition of injunctive relief on the defendants. 
This action arose out of the defendants' recent acquisition of certain 
assets of Farmland Industries, Inc., including a refinery in 
Coffeyville, Kansas, and a terminal in Phillipsburg, Kansas. The United 
States has alleged that the refinery and terminal failed to meet 
several requirements of CAA and RCRA over a period of several years.
     The Consent Decree requires the defendants to perform CAA 
injunctive relief at the refinery, and to provide financial assurance 
pursuant to RCRA for the refinery and the terminal The Consent Decree 
obliges the defendants to, among other things: (1) Install Best 
Available Control Technology emissions controls, specifically a Wet Gas 
Scrubber to control sulfur dioxide emissions and Selective Catalytic 
Reduction to control NOx emissions, by 2010; (2) implement 
interim measures to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and 
NOx; (3) implement a program for controlling benzene 
emissions; (4) control particulate and VOC emissions; and (5) provide 
financial assurance for RCRA corrective action totaling $15 million.
     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, United States Department of Justice, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division, Post Office Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611 and should refer to United States and State 
of Kansas v. Coffeyville Resources, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-07459/1.
     The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, 901 N. 5th 
Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. During the comment period the 
consent decree may be examined on the Department of Justice Web site, 
http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the consent decree may 
also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Post Office 
Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing 
or e-mailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood ([email protected]), 
fax number (202) 514-0097, telephone confirmation number (202) 514-
1547. In requesting a copy by mail, please enclose a check in the 
amount of $27.00 for United States and State of Kansas v. Coffeyville 
Resources (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. 
Treasury.

Robert E. Maher, Jr.
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 04-6059 Filed 3-17-04; 8:45 am]
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