[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 219 (Friday, November 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63495-63496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30419]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    On October 23, 1998, the United States lodged a proposed consent 
decree in the case of United States v. Guam Power Authority, Civil 
Action No. 97-00030 (D. Guam), with the United States District Court 
for the Territory of Guam.
    The proposed consent decree resolves claims that the United States 
asserted against Guam Power Authority (``GPA'') in a civil complaint 
filed on April 29, 1997. The filed complaint alleges that GPA failed to 
burn low-sulfur fuel-oil at its Cabras-Piti area electricity generating 
plants when required, submitted late reports to EPA, and violated other 
monitoring and reporting requirements contained in a waiver that EPA 
issued to GPA under section 325 of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7425-1.
    The proposed Consent Decree requires GPA to comply with the waiver 
requirements, to pay a civil penalty of $170,000, and to spend at least 
$800,000 on a Supplemental Environmental Project that will automate 
GPA's fuel-switching operations and reduce sulfur emissions from GPA's 
Cabrias-Piti plants.
    The Department of Justice will accept comments relating to this 
Consent Decree for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this 
publication. See 28 C.F.R. 50.7. Address your comments to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and send a copy to 
Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 301 
Howard Street, Suite 870, San Francisco, CA 94105. Your comments should 
refer to U.S. v. Guam Power Authority, Civil No. 97-00030 (D. Guam), 
and DOJ No. 90-5-2-1-2060.
    You may examine the proposed consent decree at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Territory of Guam, Suite 502-A, Pacific News 
Bldg., 238 Archbishop Flores Street, Agana,

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Guam 96910; or at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd 
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. You may also obtain a copy of the 
consent decree in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library. 
Your request for a copy of the consent decree in U.S. v. Guam Power 
Authority should refer to that case title, Civil No. 97-00030 (D. 
Guam), and DOJ No. 90-5-2-1-2060, and must include a check for $5.75 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the ``Consent Decree 
Library.''
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-30419 Filed 11-12-98; 8:45 am]
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