[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 52714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18797]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    On August 3, 2016, the Department of Justice lodged proposed 
modifications to a Consent Decree with the United States District Court 
for the Eastern District of Virginia in United States et al. v. 
Virginia Electric and Power Company, Civil Case Nos. 1:03-cv-00517 & 
1:03-cv-00603 (E.D. Va.).
    The original Consent Decree was entered on October 3, 2003, and 
resolved civil claims under the Clean Air Act at a number of the 
Defendant's electric-generating facilities located in Virginia and West 
Virginia. The Consent Decree imposed various pollution control 
requirements on Defendant's facilities, including requirements related 
to particulate matter emissions at Defendant's Bremo Power Station 
located in Fluvanna County, Virginia. The Consent Decree also required 
the Defendant to fund certain environmental mitigation projects, 
including certain projects identified by the co-plaintiff States of 
Connecticut and Virginia.
    The parties to the Consent Decree have agreed to certain 
modifications set forth in three amendments to the Consent. The first 
amendment modifies the Consent Decree's particulate matter provisions 
to recognize that the Bremo Power Station no longer burns coal or fuel 
oil and instead is fired exclusively with natural gas. The second and 
third amendments modify the Consent Decree's environmental mitigation 
project provisions to allow the co-plaintiff States of Connecticut and 
Virginia to use remaining environmental mitigation funds on additional 
environmental mitigation projects.
    The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on 
the proposed modifications to the Consent Decree. Comments should be 
addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, and should refer to United States et al. v. 
Virginia Electric and Power Company, Civil Case Nos. 1:03-cv-00517 & 
1:03-cv-00603 (E.D. Va.), D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-07122. 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.............................  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 proposed amendments to the 
Consent Decree may be examined and downloaded at this Justice 
Department Web site: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. We 
will provide a paper copy of the proposed amendments 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 or money order for $3.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury.

Jeffrey Sands,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section. Environment 
and Natural Resources Division
[FR Doc. 2016-18797 Filed 8-8-16; 8:45 am]
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