[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16376-16377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06513]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    On March 20, 2014, the Department of Justice lodged a proposed 
consent decree with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Texas in the lawsuit entitled United States v. Flint Hills 
Resources Port Arthur, LLC, Civil Action No. 1:14CV169.

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    In the Complaint, the United States alleges that Flint Hills 
Resources Port Arthur, LLC (``Flint Hills'') violated, at its chemical 
plant in Port Arthur, Texas, various provisions of the Clean Air Act, 
42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. relating to the operation of flares, leak 
detection and repair practices, and benzene waste operations 
activities.
    Under the consent decree, Flint Hills will implement innovative 
pollution control technologies to reduce emissions of volatile organic 
compounds (``VOCs'') and hazardous air pollutants from the two main 
flares and one back-up flare that operate at the Port Arthur facility. 
Flint Hills will operate systems that will recover and recycle waste 
gas back into plant processes (i.e., flare gas recovery) and, for waste 
gas that is flared, Flint Hills will operate numerous monitoring 
systems and comply with several operating parameters to ensure that the 
flares adequately combust the gases. Flint Hills also will install 
``low emissions'' valve technology and enhance its work practices 
relating to detecting and repairing leaks of VOCs from valves, pumps, 
and other equipment at the Port Arthur facility. Finally, the proposed 
Consent Decree requires Flint Hills to implement measures to minimize 
emissions of benzene from wastewater, to perform two community projects 
at a cost of $2.35 million, and to pay a civil penalty of $350,000.
    The publication of this notice opens a period of public comment on 
the consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Acting 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
and should refer to United States v. Flint Hills Resources Port Arthur, 
LLC, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-10070. All comments must be submitted no 
later than thirty (30) days after the publication date of this notice. 
Comments may be submitted either by email or by mail:

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            To submit comments:                     Send them to:
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By email..................................  [email protected].
By mail...................................  Acting Assistant Attorney
                                             General, U.S. DOJ--ENRD,
                                             P.O. Box 7611, Washington,
                                             DC 20044-7611.
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    During the public comment period, the consent decree may be 
examined and downloaded at this Department of Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. We will provide a paper copy 
of the consent decree upon written request and payment of reproduction 
costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Consent Decree Library, 
U.S. DOJ--ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611.
    Please enclose a check in the amount of $53.25 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury.

Thomas P. Carroll,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-06513 Filed 3-24-14; 8:45 am]
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