Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Emergency Response and Community Right-To-Know Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air

Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Emergency

Response and Community Right-To-Know Act

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

hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Shell

Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon Enterprises

LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon Enterprises

LLC, Civil Action No. 98-652-GPM, was lodged with the United States

District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on September 9,

1998 contemporaneously with the filing of a complaint. This proposed

consent decree would resolve the United States' civil claims against

Shell Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon

Enterprises LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon

Enterprises LLC (``Defendants'') for violations at the Wood River

Refinery in Roxana, Illinois, under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401

et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et

seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and

Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and the Emergency Response and

Community Right to Know Act, 42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq. The proposed

consent decree would also resolve claims brought by the State of

Illinois, which has intervened in this action.

Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, Defendants will pay

a civil penalty of $1.5 million ($500,000 of which will go to the State

of Illinois) and certify compliance with the above-referenced

environmental laws. Defendants also will perform six environmental

projects as part of the proposed settlement, including a project that

will reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide by 7,700 tons per year and

nitrogen oxides by 940 tons per year and a project that will require

Defendants to arrange for the transfer of land along the Mississippi

River (valued at $500,000) to the State of Illinois for wetlands

preservation and water quality protection purposes. The total cost of

the environmental projects will exceed $10 million.

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. Shell Oil Company, Shell Wood River Refining Company, Equilon

Enterprises LLC, and Wood River Refining Company, a Division of Equilon

Enterprises LLC, Civil Action No. 98-652-GPM, and Department of Justice

Reference No. 90-7-1-818.

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

United States Attorney, Southern District of Illinois, 9 Executive

Drive, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208; the Region 5 Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,

Illinois 60604-3590; 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 $10.50 (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. 98-26175 Filed 9-29-98; 8:45 am]

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