Notice of Lodging of a Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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

Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Mobil

Chemical Company, Civil Action No. 1:95 CV 858, was lodged on September

28, 1995, with the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of Texas.

The Consent Decree between the United States and Mobil Chemical

Company resolves violations of the Clean Air Act (``CAA'') and the

Benzene and Asbestos National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air

Pollutants (``NESHAP''), the Clean Water Act (``CWA'') and the

company's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (``NPDES'')

Permit, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA'') and

the state and federal hazardous waste regulations occurring at the

company's petrochemical facility in Beaumont, Texas. The Consent Decree

includes a requirement that Mobil pay a civil penalty of $250,000.

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, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United

States v. Mobil Chemical Company, DOJ Ref. No. 90-7-1-652.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the

United States Attorney, 350 Magnolia Street, Suite 250, Beaumont, Texas

77701-2237; the Region VI Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202; 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 $3.25 (25

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and

Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 95-25288 Filed 10-11-95; 8:45 am]

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