[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 154 (Thursday, August 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45848-45849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6804]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Notice is hereby given that on July 21, 2006 a proposed consent 
decree in United States v. American Iron Oxide Company and Magnetics 
International, Inc., Civil Action No. 2: 06-cv-00251-WCL-APR was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
Indiana.
    In this action the United States sought civil penalties and 
injunctive relief for alleged violations of Section 113(b) of the Clean 
Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(b), more specifically the National Emission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for steel pickling--
HC1, at three steel pickling facilities: American Iron Oxide's 
facilities in Portage, Indiana, and Grandview, Indiana, and Magnetics 
International, Inc.'s facility in Burns Harbor, Indiana. The proposed 
Consent Decree requires the Defendants to: (a) Pay a total civil 
penalty of $100,000; (b) undertake two community-based Supplemental 
Environmental Projects; (c) make process and equipment modifications at 
the three facilities; (d) conduct stack tests to demonstrate compliance 
with the NESHAP at the Portage and Magnetic Facilities, with AMROX 
using a stack test to determine if the Rockport Facility is subject to 
the NESHAP; and (e) comply with all of the requirements of the NESHAP 
at the Portage and Magnetics Facilities, as well as at the

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Rockport Facility if that plant is determined to be subject to the 
NESHAP.
    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, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 
7611, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should 
refer to United States v. American Iron Oxide Company, et al., D.J. 
Ref. 90-5-2-1-07939.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, 5400 
Federal Plaza, Suite 1500, Hammond, Indiana 46320 (contact Asst. U.S. 
Attorney Wayne Ault (219-937-5500), and at U.S. EPA Region 5, 7th Floor 
Records Center, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60604 (contact 
Assoc. Regional Counsel Cynthis King (312-886-6831)). During the public 
comment period, the proposed 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 proposed consent decree may also be obtained 
by mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, US 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 $13.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the 
US Treasury or, if by e-mail or fax, forward a check in that amount to 
the Consent Decree Library at the stated address.

William Brighton,
Assistant Chief, Environmental, Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources, Division.
[FR Doc. 06-6804 Filed 8-9-06; 8:45 am]
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