[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 239 (Friday, December 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 65444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32477]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Stipulation Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and Section 
113(g) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given 
that a proposed Stipulation in United States v. Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Civil Action 
No. 4:CV-96-0563, was lodged on November 26, 1997 with the United 
States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The 
proposed Stipulation is intended to settle an action that the United 
States brought on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency under Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(b), 
against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania 
Department of Corrections (``defendants'') seeking civil penalties and 
injunctive relief to redress defendants' alleged violations of 
emissions limits promulgated by Pennsylvania and incorporated into the 
Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP) under Section 110(a) of 
the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7410(a). The alleged violations concern 
particulate matter emitted in connection with the operation of three 
coal-fired boilers at the State Correctional Institute at Camp Hill, 
Pennsylvania. Under the terms of the proposed Stipulation, the 
defendants will be required to (1) pay a civil penalty of $192,500, (2) 
install new pollution control equipment for their coal-fired boilers by 
January 31, 1998, (3) demonstrate compliance with the applicable 
particulate matter emission limits by March 15, 1998, using the new 
control equipment, and (4) continue to operate in compliance with those 
emission limits in the interim using temporary fuel-oil boilers that 
were installed at the facility in July 1997.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed Stipulation. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of 
Corrections, DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-2058.
    The proposed Stipulation may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Federal 
Building, 228 Walnut Street, Room 217, Harrisburg, PA 17108; the Region 
III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut 
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107; and at the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 
624-0892. A copy of the proposed Stipulation 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 $4.75 (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. 97-32477 Filed 12-11-97; 8:45 am]
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