[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 155 (Thursday, August 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49016-49017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20296]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on July 25, 2000, a 
proposed consent decree in the case United States v. USX Corporation, 
Civil Action No. 99CV536JM, was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
    In this action the United States sought penalties for violations of 
Section 112(c) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(c), and the 
National Emission Standard for benzene waste, 40 CFR Part 61, at its 
integrated steel plant located in Gary, Indiana. The proposed consent 
decree requires USX Corporation to pay $587,000 in civil penalties and 
to remove transformers containing 45,000 pounds of poly-chlorinated 
biphenyls (PCBs) as a supplemental environmental project.
    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, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States v. USC 
Corporation, No. 99CV536JM, D.J. Ref. 90-5-2-1-06476.
    The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 1001 Main St., Suite A, Dyer, Indiana 46311, and at 
U.S. EPA Region

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5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. A copy of the 
consent decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount 
of $6.25 (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. 00-20296 Filed 8-9-00; 8:45 am]
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