Lodging of Consent Decree; Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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. TABC,

Inc., Civil Action No. CV 94-2242-RSWL (C.D. Cal.), was lodged on April

8, 1994 with the United States District Court for the Central District

of California. In the complaint in that action, the United States seeks

from defendant TABC, Inc. (``TABC'') civil penalties and injunctive

relief under section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act (the ``Act''), 42

U.S.C. 7413(b), for TABC's use at its truck bed manufacturing facility

in Long Beach, California, of automobile coatings that exceed the

volatile organic compound limits allowed by the Act and the California

State Implementation Plan (``SIP''). The proposed consent decree

requires TABC to operate two add-on controls TABC installed in 1990 and

1991 to ensure compliance with the SIP and to pay a penalty of

$485,000.

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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044, and

should refer to United States v. TABC, INC., DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-1304.

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

United States Attorney, Central District of California, 300 North Los

Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California 90012; at the Region IX office

of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San

Francisco, California 94105; 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 $5.00 (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. 94-9380 Filed 4-18-94; 8:45 am]

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