Lodging a Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging a Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource Conservation

and Recovery Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and 42 U.S.C.

6973(d), notice is hereby given that on March 4, 1994, a proposed

consent decree in United States versus Dale Valentine, et al., Civil

Action No. 93CV1005J, was lodged with the United States District Court

for the District of Wyoming.

The complaint filed by the United States on February 19, 1993,

seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties under Section 7003 of the

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA''), 42 U.S.C. 6973. The

complaint alleges that an abandoned oil reprocessing facility near

Glenrock, Wyoming, commonly known as Powder River Crude Processors or

Big Muddy Oil Processors (the ``Site''), may present an imminent and

substantial endangerment to human health or the environment. The

complaint seeks injunctive relief for a clean up of the Site and civil

penalties for violations of administrative orders issued by EPA.

Under this consent decree, five of the ten defendants named in the

action, Texaco Marketing and Refining Inc., Phillips Petroleum Company,

True Oil Company, Eighty-Eight Oil Company, and Conoco Pipe Line

Company (``Settling Defendants''), will conduct a clean up of the Site,

which contains unlined sludge pits, leaking tanks, oily seeps and

spills, and contaminated soils. It is estimate that this cleanup will

cost between $4.4 and $8.9 million. In addition, the Settling

Defendants will pay a civil penalty of $300,000.

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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington,

D.C. 20044, and should refer to United States versus Dale Valentine, et

al., DOJ Ref. #90-7-1-692.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, 3rd Floor, Federal

Building, 111 South Wolcott, Casper, Wyoming 82601; the United States

Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street--Suite 500,

Denver, Colo. 80202-2466; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 ``G''

Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy

of the proposed 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

number, and enclose a check in the amount of $15.75 (25 cents per page

reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-5483 Filed 3-9-94; 8:45 am]

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