[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 135 (Thursday, July 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38216-38217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-18090]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decrees Pursuant to the Clean Air 
Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that separate consent decrees were lodged in U.S. v. 
Nevada Cogeneration Associates, #1, et al., Civil Action No. CV-S-99-
00107-PMP (D. Nev.) on June 29, 1999, with the United States District 
Court for the District of Nevada. The case is a civil action under 
section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act (``Act''), 42 U.S.C. 7413(b), for 
violation of provisions of the Act and of the regulations for 
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (``PSD'') that require owners 
and operators of any new stationary source to install and operate Best 
Available Control Technology (``BACT'') to control emissions of 
relevant air pollutants.
    The violations of the PDS regulations involved construction and 
operation of five gas turbines at two facilities near Las Vegas, 
Nevada, on which Defendants failed to install and operate BACT.
    The Complaint in the civil action seeks injunctive relief to ensure 
future compliance with the PSD regulations. Under the consent decrees, 
the defendants will install and operate selective catalytic reduction 
units ``(SCRs'') to control emissions of oxides of nitrogen 
(``NOX''). After retrofitting the turbines with SCRs, each 
defendant is required to operate the emissions control equipment 
specified by its consent decree in compliance with the

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Clean Air Act and its consent decree and is required to obtain 
necessary revised authority to construct permits from the Clark County 
Health District for the SCRs. In addition the defendants will pay a 
civil penalty of $200,000.
    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 Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. Nevada Cogeneration Associates #1, et al., DOJ No. 90-5-2-1-
2130.
    The proposed consent decrees may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, District of Nevada, 701 East Bridger Avenue, 
Suite 800, Las Vegas 8910; at the Region IX Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 
94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW, 4th Floor, 
Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of any of the proposed 
consent decrees 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 the consent decree in United States v. Nevada 
Cogeneration Associates, #1, et al., please refer to that case and DOJ 
No. 90-5-2-1-2130 and enclose a check in the amount of $7.50 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs). Your check should be payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-18090 Filed 7-14-99; 8:45 am]
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