[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16266-16267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9121]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed amended consent decree in United States 
versus Ohio Power Company, Civil Action No. 5:94-CV-100, was lodged on 
April 8, 1996, with the United States District Court for the Northern 
District of West Virginia. The proposed amended consent resolves this 
action brought under the Clean Air Act against Ohio Power Company, the 
owner and operator of an electrical generation facility, known as the 
Kammer Power Plant, located near Moundsville, West Virginia.
    The proposed amended consent decree, which supersedes and replaces 
the partial consent decree entered in the same court on January 23, 
1995, extends until November 1998 the final deadline for defendant's 
compliance with the sulfur dioxide (``SO2'') emission limitation 
of its West Virginia State Implementation Plan (``SIP''), in order to 
allow West Virginia time to submit to EPA a comprehensive, multiple-
source SIP revision request. The decree also sets interim SO2 
limits; requires defendant to perform two supplemental environmental 
projects consisting of the installation of two low nitrogen oxide 
(``NOX'') burners in another facility owned by defendant; and 
provides for the payment of a cash penalty of $200,000.

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    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
amended consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States versus Ohio Power Company, DOJ Ref. 90-5-2-1-1958.
    The proposed amended consent decree may be examined at the Office 
of the United States Attorney, Northern District of West Virginia, 
1125-1141 Chapline Street, Room 238, Wheeling, WV 26003; the Region III 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 941 Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia, PA 19107; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, 202-624-0892. A copy of 
the proposed amended consent decree may be obtained in person or by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, 
Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy, please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $16.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-9121 Filed 4-11-96; 8:45 am]
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