[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 189 (Wednesday, September 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 52291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26175]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air
Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Emergency
Response and Community Right-To-Know Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Shell
Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon Enterprises
LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon Enterprises
LLC, Civil Action No. 98-652-GPM, was lodged with the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on September 9,
1998 contemporaneously with the filing of a complaint. This proposed
consent decree would resolve the United States' civil claims against
Shell Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon
Enterprises LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon
Enterprises LLC (``Defendants'') for violations at the Wood River
Refinery in Roxana, Illinois, under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401
et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et
seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and the Emergency Response and
Community Right to Know Act, 42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq. The proposed
consent decree would also resolve claims brought by the State of
Illinois, which has intervened in this action.
Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, Defendants will pay
a civil penalty of $1.5 million ($500,000 of which will go to the State
of Illinois) and certify compliance with the above-referenced
environmental laws. Defendants also will perform six environmental
projects as part of the proposed settlement, including a project that
will reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide by 7,700 tons per year and
nitrogen oxides by 940 tons per year and a project that will require
Defendants to arrange for the transfer of land along the Mississippi
River (valued at $500,000) to the State of Illinois for wetlands
preservation and water quality protection purposes. The total cost of
the environmental projects will exceed $10 million.
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, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. Shell Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon
Enterprises LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon
Enterprises LLC, Civil Action No. 98-652-GPM, and Department of Justice
Reference No. 90-7-1-818.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Southern District of Illinois, 9 Executive
Drive, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208; the Region 5 Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604-3590; 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 $10.50 (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. 98-26175 Filed 9-29-98; 8:45 am]
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