[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 52 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 14319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6537]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on March 3, 2000, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States of America and County of 
Allegheny, Pennsylvania v. Shenango Incorporated, Civil Action 80-1172, 
was lodged with the United States District Court for the Western 
District of Pennsylvania.
    In this action the United States sought civil contempt for 
violations of a Consent Decree between the same parties that resolved a 
prior civil contempt action in the same case (1993 Decree). The newly 
lodged Consent Decree is proposed to resolve Shenango's alleged 
violations of the 1993 Decree, which incorporates Allegheny County 
regulations enforceable under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401, et 
seq.
    The site of the alleged violations is Shenango's coke oven battery 
on Neville Island, located in the Ohio River approximately five miles 
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In settlement, Shenango will pay a civil 
penalty of $2,100,000 and accept a mandatory injunction. Under the 
injunction, Shenango is required to continue with major renovations to 
its desulfurization system and to make formal and improve a program 
designed to reduce or eliminate violations of Allegheny County's 
visible emission standard for coke oven combustion stacks. Further, 
Shenango has agreed to substantial stipulated penalties for any future 
violations of Allegheny County's desulfurization and combustion stack 
visible emission standards.
    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, 
P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 2004-7611, 
and should refer to United States et al. v. Shenango Incorporated, DOJ 
Ref. #90-5-2-3-1099/1.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania, 633 U.S. Post 
Office and Courthouse, 7th and Grant Streets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
15219, the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, and the Allegheny 
County Health Department Library, Building #7, 301 39th Street, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201-1891 (between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m.) A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611. The proposed Consent Decree 
contains 119 pages, including attachments. To obtain the Consent Decree 
without attachments, please enclose a check for $19.00 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library. To 
obtain the entire Decree, including attachments, please enclose a check 
to the Consent Decree Library in the amount of $29.75. In all 
correspondence, please refer to the case by its title and DOJ Ref. #90-
5-2-3-1099/1.

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-6537 Filed 3-15-00; 8:45 am]
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