[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 146 (Friday, July 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45617-45618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19180]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of the Consent Decree Under the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act

    Notice is hereby given that on July 25, 2011, a proposed Consent 
Decree in United States v. Chevron Puerto Rico, LLC, f/k/a Texaco 
Puerto Rico, Inc. (``CHEVRON''), Civil Action No. 3:11-CV-1716, was 
lodged with the United States Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
    The proposed Consent Decree resolves CHEVRON's Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Puerto Rico Underground 
Storage Tank Regulations (PRUSTR) violations stemming from its failure 
to provide overfill protection equipment at two underground storage 
tank (UST) facilities; failure to perform annual tests of automatic 
line leak detectors (ALLDs)

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for piping; failure to maintain records of annual testing of ALLDs; 
failure to provide release detection for tanks and pressurized piping 
and failure to maintain records of compliance with release detection 
requirements for both tanks and pressurized piping. Under the terms of 
the Consent Decree, CHEVRON will pay a $600,000 penalty, undertake two 
Supplemental Environment Projects valued at approximately $3.4 million, 
and implement injunctive relief valued at approximately $1.8 million. 
As part of the injunctive relief under the Consent Decree, CHEVRON will 
install a fully automated release detection system for tanks and piping 
associated with the UST systems at 155 of CHEVRON's UST facilities no 
later than March 31, 2013. The automated release detection system will 
include automatic tank gauging for single wall tanks, interstitial 
monitoring for double wall tanks, and electronic line leak detectors 
for piping on the UST systems. CHEVRON also agrees under the Consent 
Decree to install dispenser pans under all dispensers no later than 
March 31, 2013 at 155 of CHEVRON's UST facilities.
    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, and either e-mailed to 
[email protected] or mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
the matter as United States v. Chevron Puerto Rico, LLC, D.J. Ref. 90-
7-1-09727.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Torre Chardon Suite 1201, 350 Carlos Chardon Avenue, 
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, and at U.S. EPA Region II, 290 Broadway, 
New York, New York. 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/Consent_Decrees.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 from the Consent Decree Library a 
copy of the consent decree for United States v. Chevron Puerto Rico, 
LLC, Civil Action No. 3:11-CV-1716, please enclose a check in the 
amount of $13.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the 
U.S. Treasury.

Ronald G. Gluck,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resource Division.
[FR Doc. 2011-19180 Filed 7-28-11; 8:45 am]
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