[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 66646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30829]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Proposed Modification to Consent Decree 
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 3, 1999, a modification to 
the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree in United States v. Block Island Power 
Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 98-045 ML, was lodged in the United 
States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
    The proposed modification to the Consent Decree extends, by six 
months, the date by which Block Island Power Company, Inc. (``BIPCO'') 
must achieve final compliance with the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et 
seq. Under paragraph 22 of the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree, BIPCO 
agreed to install and operate lowest achievable emission rate 
(``LAER'') pollution controls on its generators by eighteen months from 
the date that it abandoned the underwater cable project. BIPCO 
abandoned the cable project on March 1, 1999 and therefore under the 
July 14, 1998 Consent Decree, BIPCO needed to install and operate LAER 
by September 1, 2000. The proposed modification to the Consent Decree 
would extend this September 1, 2000 date by six months, until March 1, 
2001. The proposed modification does not affect any other provisions of 
the July 14, 1998 Consent Decree.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments solely 
relating to the proposed modification to the July 14, 1998 Consent 
Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this 
notice. Please address comments to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, P.O. 
Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044 and refer to Block 
Island Power Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 98-045 ML (D.R.I.), DJ # 
90-5-2-1-2021.
    Copies of the proposed modification to the Consent Decree may be 
examined at the Office of the United States Attorney for the District 
of Rhode Island, Assistant United States Attorney, Fleet Center, 8th 
floor, 50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island 02903; at the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region I, 1 Congress Street, Suite 
1100, Boston, Massachusetts 02114. A copy of the proposed modification 
to the Consent Decree may also be obtained in person or by mail at the 
Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, 
Washington, DC 20044. When requesting a copy of the proposed 
modification to the Consent Decree by mail, please enclose a check in 
the amount of $.75 (twenty-five cents per page reproduction costs) 
payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 99-30829 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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