# Notice of Lodging of Stipulation Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** December 12, 1997
- **Citation:** 62 FR 65444

## Text

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Stipulation Pursuant to the Clean Air Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and Section
113(g) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given
that a proposed Stipulation in United States v. Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Civil Action
No. 4:CV-96-0563, was lodged on November 26, 1997 with the United
States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The
proposed Stipulation is intended to settle an action that the United
States brought on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency under Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(b),
against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania
Department of Corrections (``defendants'') seeking civil penalties and
injunctive relief to redress defendants' alleged violations of
emissions limits promulgated by Pennsylvania and incorporated into the
Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP) under Section 110(a) of
the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7410(a). The alleged violations concern
particulate matter emitted in connection with the operation of three
coal-fired boilers at the State Correctional Institute at Camp Hill,
Pennsylvania. Under the terms of the proposed Stipulation, the
defendants will be required to (1) pay a civil penalty of $192,500, (2)
install new pollution control equipment for their coal-fired boilers by
January 31, 1998, (3) demonstrate compliance with the applicable
particulate matter emission limits by March 15, 1998, using the new
control equipment, and (4) continue to operate in compliance with those
emission limits in the interim using temporary fuel-oil boilers that
were installed at the facility in July 1997.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed Stipulation. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant
Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Department of
Corrections, DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-2058.
The proposed Stipulation may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Federal
Building, 228 Walnut Street, Room 217, Harrisburg, PA 17108; the Region
III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut
Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107; and at the Consent Decree
Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202)
624-0892. A copy of the proposed Stipulation 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 $4.75 (25 cents
per page reproduction costs) payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-32477 Filed 12-11-97; 8:45 am]
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