[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 151 (Monday, August 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40658-40659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19734]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging a Joint Stipulation of Settlement Pursuant to 
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 6973(d), notice is hereby given that on July 25, 1996, a proposed 
modification of consent decree in United States v. Dale Valentine, et 
al., Civil Action No. 93CV1005J, was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the District of Wyoming.
    The complaint filed by the United States on February 19, 1993, 
seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties under Section 7003 of the 
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6973. 
The complaint alleges that an abandoned oil reprocessing facility near 
Glenrock, Wyoming, commonly known as Powder River Crude Processors or 
Big Muddy Oil Processors (the ``Site''), may present an imminent and 
substantial endangerment to human health or the environment. The 
complaint seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties for violations of 
administrative orders issued by EPA under Section 7003 of RCRA for a 
cleanup of the Site.
    Under a Consent Decree entered by the U.S. District Court for the 
District of Wyoming on June 21, 1994, five defendants (Texaco Refining 
and Marketing, Inc., Conoco Pipe Line Company, True Oil Company, 
Eighty-Eight Oil Company, and Phillips Petroleum Company) agreed to pay 
a civil penalty of $300,000 for their past violations of the 
administrative orders and agreed to perform a clean up of the Site, 
designed to address conditions at the Site which may present an 
imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment. The 
proposed modification of this Consent Decree provides that one of the 
performance standard for soils more than three feet below the ground 
surface will be changed from a standard of less than 100 ppm Total 
Petroleum Hydrocarbons to a standard of less than 3.3 ppm 
benzo(a)pyrene.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed modification of settlement. Comments should be addressed to 
the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, 
Washington, DC 20044, and should refer to United States v. Dale 
Valentine, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-7-1-692. In accordance with Section 
7003(d) of RCRA, commenters can also request a public meeting in the 
affected area.
    The proposed modification may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, 3rd Floor, Federal 
Building, 111 South Wolcott, Casper, Wyoming 82601; the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street--Suite 500, 
Denver, Colo. 80202-2466; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 ``G'' 
Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of 
the proposed modification

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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 number, and enclose a 
check in the amount of $3.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-19734 Filed 8-2-96; 8:45 am]
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