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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Clean Air Act

    In accordance with Department policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 
given that on December 28, 1993, a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc., Civil Action No. 
1:93CV2754, was lodged in the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Ohio. The Complaint filed by the United States 
alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, the National Emission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Asbestos, 40 CFR 
part 61, subpart M, by Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc. (SCM), 
Superior Demolition and Excavating, Inc. (SDE), and Market Plaza 
Properties Limited Partnership. The Consent Decree requires the 
defendants to pay a total civil penalty of $27,500 in full settlement 
of the claims set forth in the Complaint filed by the United States. 
The Consent Decree also requires the defendants to ensure that their 
employees have the required inspector and asbestos abatement worker 
training before those employees can inspect or work in facilities where 
asbestos containing material (ACM) or suspect ACM would be removed. 
Additionally, the compliance section requires SCM, SDE, and Market 
Plaza to provide written instructions to their employees not to handle, 
move, or otherwise disturb ACM or suspect ACM unless specially trained, 
licensed or authorized to do so, to comply with the asbestos NESHAP, 
and to provide EPA with notice before removing any asbestos in the 
future.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments concerning the proposed 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, and 
should refer to United States v. Superior Contract Maintenance, Inc., 
D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-1739.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at any of the following 
offices: (1) The United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
Ohio, United States Courthouse, Room 208, 2 South Main Street, Akron, 
Ohio 44308 (contact Assistant United States Attorney James L. Bickett); 
(2) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Assistant Regional 
Counsel Padmavati G. Klejwa); and (3) the Environmental Enforcement 
Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, 
Washington, DC 20005 (202-624-0892). A copy of the proposed consent 
decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. For a 
copy of the Consent Decree please enclose a check in the amount of 
$5.50 (25 cents per page for reproduction costs, exclusive of the costs 
of the appendices), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-798 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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