[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 93 (Thursday, May 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26619-26620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10842]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on April 28, 2004, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Manufacturing Company, 
Civil Action No. 4:04CV495-JCH was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
    The complaint alleges that True violated the Clean Air Act in the 
(1) construction and operation of various modifications at its 
refrigeration manufacturing plant without obtaining a construction/
operation permit as required by the federally approved Missouri New 
Source Review (``NSR'') Rules, codified at Rule 10 CSR 10-6.060

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of the Missouri State Implementation Program (``SIP''); (2) operation 
of its facility without applying for or obtaining an operating permit 
as required by the federally approved Missouri Title V provisions, Rule 
10 CSR 10-6.065; and (3) violation of federally approved Missouri Rule 
10 CSR 10-5.300(3)(A)(2) which requires training of all persons 
involved in solvent metal cleaning or degrading at all installations 
that emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from solvent metal cleaning 
or degreasing operations. It also alleges violations of the Resource, 
Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6925, and Clean Water Act, 42 
U.S.C. 1321.
    The Consent Decree settles these claims in exchange for payment of 
a civil penalty of $1,500,000 and True's performance of injunctive 
relief and three Supplemental Environmental Projects. True will remove 
the equipment for which it did not get the required permits and replace 
all of its solvent-based ink presses with presses that use ultraviolet 
light to cure ink, install three silk-screen cleaning machines that are 
enclosed systems with s solvent recovery system, and install a water 
filtration system.
    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, 
Environmental and Natural Resources Division, PO Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
U.S. v. True Manufacturing Company Consent Decree, D.J. Ref. 90-5-2-1-
07357.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Eastern District of Missouri, 111 10th Street, St. 
Louis, MO 63102 and at U.S. EPA Region VII, U.S. EPA, Region VII, 901 
N. 5th Street, Kansas City, KS 66101, (913) 551-7471. During the public 
comment period, the Consent Decree may also be examined on the 
following Department of Justice website, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail 
from the Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request 
to Tonia Fleetwood ([email protected]), fax no. (202) 514-0097, 
phone confirmation number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy from the 
Consent Decree Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $10.25 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Robert Maher,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 04-10842 Filed 5-12-04; 8:45 am]
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