[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 61663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29511]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Notice of hereby given that on October 29, 1999, the United States 
filed a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. USX Corporation, 
Civ. Action No. 99-1783, in the United States District Court for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania.
    The United States' claims resolved by the Decree with USX 
Corporation (``USX'') are described in a Complaint filed 
contemporaneously with the Decree. The claims arise out of USX's 
alleged violations of Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 
7413(b), occurring at USX's Edgar Thomson Steel Mill in Braddock, 
Pennsylvania (the ``Edgar Thomson Plant''). The Complaint seeks 
injunctive relief and civil penalties for USX's alleged violations of 
the federally-enforceable Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP). 
Specifically, the Complaint alleges that, in 1996 and 1997, visible 
emissions from the scrubber stack at the Edgar Thomson Plant exceeded 
the opacity limits established in the Allegheny County portion of the 
Pennsylvania SIP. Allegheny County is a co-signatory to the Consent 
Decree, and a plaintiff-intervenor in the Complaint.
    Under the terms of the settlement, USX will pay a civil penalty of 
$550,000 and will undertake implementation of five Supplemental 
Environmental Projects (``SEPs'') worth over $1.6 million. These SEPs 
include: (1) The installation of a continuous caster flux baghouse to 
capture fluoride in USX's wastewater stream; (2) the injection of 
natural gas into the liquid steel vessels to reduce the amount of 
airborne emissions; (3) pavement of plant roadways and upgrade of its 
scrap metal storage area to reduce emissions; (4) enhancements to its 
gas cleaning equipment; and (5) replacement of numerous electrical 
transformers containing a dielectric fluid with polychlorinated 
biphenyl (PCB) concentration in excess of 50 parts per 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 of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. USX Corporation, DOJ Ref. 90-5-2-1-2175.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at either U.S. EPA 
Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2029. A 
copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained in person or by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, Department of Justice, 
Environmental Enforcement Section, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, 
Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy of the Consent Decree, 
please enclose a check in the amount of $12.25 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree alone, and $75.50 for the 
Consent Decree with all exhibits attached. Checks must be payable to 
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-29511 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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