Proposed Settlement; Industrial Process Cooling Towers Emission Standard Litigation

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Proposed Settlement; Industrial Process Cooling Towers Emission

Standard Litigation

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Settlement; Request for Public Comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act

(``Act''), notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement of Libbey-

Owens-Ford Company v. United States Environmental Protection Agency,

No. 95-1141 (D.C. Cir.).

The case involves a challenge to the rule entitled ``National

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Industrial Process

Cooling Towers,'' published in the Federal Register at 59 FR 46,339 on

September 8, 1994. The proposed settlement provides for EPA to issue a

revision to the rule allowing sources to demonstrate compliance through

recordkeeping in lieu of water sample analysis.

For a period of thirty (30) days following the date of publication

of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments to the

settlement from persons who were not named as parties to the litigation

in question. EPA or the Department of Justice may withhold or withdraw

consent to the proposed settlement if the comments disclose facts or

circumstances that indicate that such consent is inappropriate,

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with the requirements of the Act.

Copies of the settlement are available from Gwendolyn Jones, Air and

Radiation Division (2344), Office of General Counsel, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20460, (202) 260-7620. Written comments should be sent to Patricia A.

Embrey at the above address and must be submitted on or before [insert

date 30 days after publication].

Dated: August 4, 1997.

Scott C. Fulton,

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97-21536 Filed 8-13-97; 8:45 am]

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