[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 5248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2664]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Oil Pollution 
Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States and State 
of California v. ARCO Pipe Line Company, CV 97-0361 JMI (C.D. Cal.), 
was lodged on January 17, 1997 with the United States District Court 
for the Central District of California. In the complaint in that 
action, the United States and State of California seek natural resource 
damages, reimbursement of response costs and damage assessment costs, 
and civil penalties from defendant ARCO Pipe Line Company (``APL''), 
relating to ruptures of an APL pipeline near Los Angeles in January 
1994, that resulted in oil being discharged to the Santa Clara River, 
among other locations.
    Pursuant to the Consent Decree, APL will pay to the federal and 
state natural resource trustees $7.1 million for natural resource 
damages, to be used for restoration of natural resources damaged from 
the oil spills; $1.3 million in payments to California for use in 
various state environmental projects and accounts in settlement of 
penalty claims; reimbursement of the United States' and California's 
response and damage assessment costs; a $25,000 civil penalty pursuant 
to the Endangered Species Act; and payments totaling $500,000 to the 
Los Angeles District Attorney's office and other environmental entities 
in settlement of the District Attorney's claim for penalties.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044; and 
refer to United States v. ARCO Pipe Line Company, DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-
4347.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, 300 N. Los 
Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California 90012; and at the 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. In requesting a copy please refer 
to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $6.75 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-2664 Filed 2-3-97; 8:45 am]
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