[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 54643] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-26108] [[Page 54643]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Notice of Lodging of the Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act as Amended by the Oil Pollution Act Under 28 CFR 50.7 notice is hereby given that on September 28, 1999, a proposed Consent Decree in United States and State of Louisiana v. Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, Civil Action No. 99-2961, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In this action the United States on behalf of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Coast Guard; and the State of Louisiana on behalf of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and Department of Natural Resources, sought recovery of natural resource damages, removal costs, and other expenses arising out of the May 16, 1997, discharge of oil from a pipeline located in Lake Barre, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The proposed Consent Decree provides that Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, successor corporation to Texaco Pipeline Inc. by way of merger, will perform a restoration project consisting of planting marsh grasses on East Timbalier Island and will pay state response costs and past state and federal assessment costs amounting to approximately $480,000. Equilon also will pay future assessment and restoration costs to the state and federal agencies. The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States and the State of Louisiana v. Equilon Pipeline Company LLC, D.J. Ref. 90-5- 1-1-06628. The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United States Attorney, 501 Magazine Street, Suite 210, New Orleans, Louisiana and at the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office, 625 North 4th Street, Suite 800, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount of $42.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, i.e., without the: (1) Final Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan, (2) Grant of Particular Use for Construction, and (3) Monitoring Plan, please enclose check in the amount of $17.75 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library. Joel M. Gross, Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 99-26108 Filed 10-6-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-15-M