[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11223-11224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5923]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water 
Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Eureka 
Pipe Line Company, et al., Civil Action No. 6:96-0282, was lodged on 
February 26, 1997 with the United States District court for the 
Southern District of West Virginia.
    The action sought civil penalties and injunctive relief against 
Eureka Pipe Line Company and Pennzoil Products Company under the Clean 
Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., as amended by the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990 (``OPA''). The United States alleged that the 
Defendants have violated the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et 
seq., as amended by OPA, by discharging oil in harmful quantities into 
navigable waters of the United States and adjoining shorelines.
    Under the proposed consent decree, the Defendants will pay $867,000 
in civil penalties (Eureka: $440,000; Pennzoil: $427,000), and Pennzoil 
has agreed to perform a set of injunctive relief measures, including, 
the removal of 19-miles of pipelines from active service, the pressure 
testing of all of its active pipelines for detection of corrosion-
related problems, the performance of a comprehensive and continual 
visual inspection program of its active oil production operations, and 
the formation of a review committee to study and redress its pipeline 
corrosion problems, with respect to its West Virginia operations.
    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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, 
D.C. 20530-0001 and should refer to United States

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v. Eureka Pipe Line Company, et al. Corp., DOJ Ref. Nos. 90-5-1-1-4206 
and 90-5-1-1-4270.
    The proposed consent decrees may be examined at the United States 
Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia, 500 Quarrier 
Street, Suite 3201, Charleston, West Virginia 25301; Region III Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-4431; and at the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 ``G'' Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, 
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed decrees may be obtained in 
person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library at the address listed 
above. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and 
numbers, and enclose a check in the amount of $31.25 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-5923 Filed 3-10-97; 8:45 am]
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