[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-32219]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Loding of Consent Decree

    In accordance with Departmental policy and 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. 
Honeywell International Inc. (E.D. Va.), Civil Action No. 3:01CV789 was 
lodged on November 23, 2001 with the United States District Court for 
the Eastern District of Virginia. The Consent Decree resolves the 
United States' claims against defendant, Honeywell International Inc., 
with respect to violations of the Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (``EPCRA''), and 
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA'') at its chemical 
manufacturing facility in Hopewell, Virginia.
    Under the Consent Decree, defendant will pay the United States 
$110,000 in penalties. In addition, the defendant will implement five 
Supplemental Environmental Projects, or ``SEPs,'' at an estimated cost 
of $772,000. These SEPs include (1) within ten months of entry of the 
Consent Decree and at a cost of no less than $375,000, the conversion 
of a refrigeration unit from use of chlorfluorocarbon-based refrigerant 
to hydrofluorocarbon-based refrigerant; (2) within seventeen months of 
entry of the Consent Decree and at a cost of no less than $300,000, the 
installation of an air emissions control system to reduce the release 
of ammonia; (3) within forty-five (45) days of entry of the Consent 
Decree and at a cost of no less than $35,000, the purchase of a 
``reverse 911'' interactive notification system for the Hopewell Local 
Emergency Planning Committee; (4) within forty-five (45) days of entry 
of the Consent Decree and at a cost of no less than $20,000, the 
purchase of a skirted boom and trailer and associated training services 
for the Henrico Regional Hazardous Incident Team; and (5) within forty-
five (45) days of entry of the Consent Decree and at a cost of no less 
than $42,000, the purchase of mass decontamination equipment and 
associated training for emergency response teams at two local medical 
centers, the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell, VA and the 
Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, VA.
    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 Acting 
Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources 
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer 
to United States v. Honeywell International, Inc., DOJ reference number 
90-7-1-06900.
    The proposed Consent Honeywell may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 600 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Richmond, 
Virginia; and the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A copy of the 
proposed decree may be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In 
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $13.00 ($.25 per page for production costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Robert D. Brook,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-32219 Filed 12-31-01; 8:45 am]
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