[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 204 (Friday, October 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63099-63100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27001]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air 
Act, the Clean Water Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act, and the Emergency Planning and 
Community Right-to-Know Act

    Consistent with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 
given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Mobil Oil 
Corporation, Civil Action No. 0010454 was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Central District of California on September 28, 
2000. On the same day, the United States filed a Complaint pursuant to 
section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, section 309(b) of the Clean Water 
Act, section 109(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, and section 325(b) 
of Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act against Mobil, 
alleging a variety of violations of federal environmental law at 
Mobil's Torrance, California refinery. The violations included improper 
laboratory practices, exceedences of the limits of its National 
Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit, failure to conduct 
inspections of refinery equipment and failure to timely report releases 
of hazardous substances into the environment. The proposed Consent 
Decree, which settles the liability of

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Mobil for the violations alleged in the Complaint, provides that Mobile 
will undertake extensive injunctive relief, pay a civil penalty of 
$500,000 and perform two Supplemental Environmental Projects valued at 
$1 million. One SEP involves the purchase of emergency response 
equipment for use by the local fire department. The second SEP involves 
studying and implementing water conservation projects at the refinery.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044, and refer 
to United States v. Mobil Oil Corporation, DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-2121.
    The proposed settlement agreement may be examined at the Office of 
the United States Attorney, Federal Building, 300 North Los Angeles 
Street, Los Angeles, California 90012 and at the Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94105. A copy of the proposed Consent Decree may also be 
obtained by mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 
Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy, please refer to 
the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $13.25 
(Consent Decree only) or $43.75 (Consent Decree with Appendices) (25 
cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-27001 Filed 10-19-00; 8:45 am]
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