[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 51145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25886]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. 
Hawaiian Cement, Civil Action No. 97-01204 ACK was lodged on September 
16, 1997 with the United States District Court for the District of 
Hawaii. The consent decree settles a civil judicial enforcement action 
brought under Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 
Sec. 7413(b), for Hawaiian Cement's failure to achieve the emission 
limitations for particulate matter established by the Hawaii State 
Implementation Plan for defendant's Kapolei, Oahu, Hawaii, portland 
cement manufacturing plant, and for violations at that plant of 
applicable new source performance standards. Under the proposed 
settlement, Hawaiian Cement has committed to a comprehensive program of 
injunctive relief that will ensure that it achieves, and remains in, 
permanent, consistent compliance with the Clean Air Act. In addition, 
under the terms of the proposed settlement Hawaiian Cement has agreed 
to pay a civil penalty into the United States Treasury of $1,162,500.
    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, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Hawaiian Cement, DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-2083. The proposed 
consent decree may be examined at the office of the United States 
Attorney, District of Hawaii, PJKK Federal Building, Room 6100, 300 Ala 
Moana Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96850; the Region IX Office of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy 
of the proposed consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, 
Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the 
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $13.25 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Walker Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-25886 Filed 9-29-97; 8:45 am]
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