[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 81 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22063-22064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8475]


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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 April 19, 2005, a 
proposed consent decree in United States v. Saint-Gobain Containers, 
Inc., Case No. 1:05-CV-00516-REC-SMS, was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of California.
    In this action, the United States sought injunctive relief and 
civil penalties under Section 113 of the Clean Air Act (``CAA'') 
against Saint Gobain Containers, Inc. (``SGCI'') at its container glass 
manufacturing facility in Madera, California, for failure to apply best 
available control technology to control oxides of nitrogen 
(``NOX'') emissions when it modified a furnace at its 
facility, failure to install a continuous emissions monitoring system, 
failure to source test its furnaces, and improper compliance 
certifications. The consent decree requires SGCI to: (1) Install a new 
oxygen-fuel furnace and associated control equipment to reduce 
NOX, sulfur dioxide (``SOX''), and particulate 
emissions, (2) implement a supplemental environmental project to reduce 
SOX and particulate emissions from an existing furnace and 
to donate

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emission reduction credits, and (3) pay a civil penalty of $929,000.
    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, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, with a copy to Robert 
Mullaney, U.S. Department of Justice, 301 Howard Street, Suite 1050, 
San Francisco, CA 94105, and should refer to United States v. Saint-
Gobain Containers, Inc., D.J. Ref. 90-5-2-1-06982.
    The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, 1130 ``O'' Street, Room 3654, Fresno, California, and 
at U.S. EPA Region 9, Office of Regional Counsel, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, California. During the public comment period, the 
consent decree may also be examined on the following Department of 
Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. 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, 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 $12 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Ellen M. Mahan,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 05-8475 Filed 4-27-05; 8:45 am]
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