[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 199 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 55410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27691]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act; Navajo Refining Co.

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Navajo 
Refining Company, Civil Action No. C93-860-M/WWD was lodged on 
September 22, 1998, with the United States District Court for the 
District of New Mexico. The Consent Decree requires defendant Navajo 
Refining Company (``NRC''), a private company not affiliated with the 
Navaho Indian Nation, to upgrade the wastewater treatment system at its 
Artesia, New Mexico petroleum refinery, cease all discharges of 
refinery wastewater to the earthen evaporation ponds located three 
miles northeast of the refinery, adopt an alternate means of disposing 
of the refinery's wastewater approved by the United States 
Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Department of the 
Environment, and pay a civil penalty of $1.75 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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Navajo Refining Company, DOJ Ref. #90-7-1-723.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, P.O. Box 607, Albuquerque, NM 87103; the Region 
6 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, 
Dallas, TX 75202, and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
N.W., 3rd 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., 3rd Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $10.25 for the consent decree, and 
$4.00 for the attachments (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Walker B. Smith,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-27691 Filed 10-14-98; 8:45 am]
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