[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 146 (Thursday, July 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40736-40737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20402]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air 
Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act and the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Terra 
International, Inc. and Terra Industries, Inc., No. C98-4070MWB (N.D. 
Iowa), was lodged on June 26, 1998, with the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of Iowa. With regard to the Defendants, 
the Consent Decree resolves claims filed by the United States on behalf 
of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') pursuant 
to the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7401 et seq., the Emergency 
Planning and Community Right to Know Act, 42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq., and 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability 
Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq. 
    The United States entered into the Consent Decree in connection 
with the Terra Industries Port Neal facility located in Port Neal, 
Iowa. The Consent Decree provides that the Settling Defendants will pay 
a civil monetary penalty of $500,000 plus reimburse the United States a 
total of $150,000 for past costs incurred by the United States at the 
Site. The Settling Defendants also perform Supplemental Environmental 
Projects valued at more than $100,000.
    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 National Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Terra International, Inc. and Terra Industries, Inc., 
DOJ Reg. #90-5-2-1-2062A.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 320 6th Street, Room 327, Sioux City, Iowa 
51101; the Region 7 office of the Environmental Protection

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Agency, 726 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas; 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 may be obtained 
in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $5.50 (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 98-20402 Filed 7-29-98; 8:45 am]
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