[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 237 (Monday, December 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63545-63546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30055]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. General 
Motors Corporation, Civil Action No. 1:95-CV-02215, was lodged on 
November 30, 1995, with the United States District Court for the 
District of Columbia. The proposed Consent Decree resolves claims 
against General Motors Corporation for injunctive relief and civil 
penalties under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. (the 
``Act''), arising from the sale of approximately 470,000 model year 
1991-1995 Cadillac vehicles, certain model year 1991-1995 light duty 
vehicles, and certain model year 1989-1996 heavy-duty gasoline engines 
(collectively, the ``covered vehicles and engines'') in violation of 
the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder relating to the 
emission of pollutants from mobile sources.
    The proposed Consent Decree requires that General Motors 
Corporation: Implement a remedial recall campaign to reduce emissions 
associated with the climate-control system fuel-enrichment strategy 
employed on the Cadillacs that are the subject of the government's 
claims; establish a fund of up to $8.75 million to implement one or 
more emission remedial projects and an emission test program to remedy 
the past and future emission of air pollutants from the covered 
vehicles and engines; conduct tests of future model years of the 
covered vehicles and engines to assess the affects of accessory- and 
timer-based enrichment strategies; and pay a civil penalty of $11 
million to resolve the United States' civil claims with respect to the 
vehicles and engines covered by the Consent Decree.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, 

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comments relating to the proposed Consent Decree. Comments should be 
addressed to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and 
Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20530, and should refer to United States v. General Motors Corporation, 
DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-2011 and 2011A.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Judiciary Center Bldg., 555 Fourth St. NW., 
Washington, DC 20001; at the Environmental Protection Agency Library, 
Reference Desk, Room 2904, 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460; and 
at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, 
Washington, DC 20005, 202-624-0892. A copy of the proposed Consent 
Decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In 
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $18.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section.
[FR Doc. 95-30055 Filed 12-8-95; 8:45 am]
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