[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 61663] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-29511] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act Notice of hereby given that on October 29, 1999, the United States filed a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. USX Corporation, Civ. Action No. 99-1783, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The United States' claims resolved by the Decree with USX Corporation (``USX'') are described in a Complaint filed contemporaneously with the Decree. The claims arise out of USX's alleged violations of Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7413(b), occurring at USX's Edgar Thomson Steel Mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania (the ``Edgar Thomson Plant''). The Complaint seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties for USX's alleged violations of the federally-enforceable Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP). Specifically, the Complaint alleges that, in 1996 and 1997, visible emissions from the scrubber stack at the Edgar Thomson Plant exceeded the opacity limits established in the Allegheny County portion of the Pennsylvania SIP. Allegheny County is a co-signatory to the Consent Decree, and a plaintiff-intervenor in the Complaint. Under the terms of the settlement, USX will pay a civil penalty of $550,000 and will undertake implementation of five Supplemental Environmental Projects (``SEPs'') worth over $1.6 million. These SEPs include: (1) The installation of a continuous caster flux baghouse to capture fluoride in USX's wastewater stream; (2) the injection of natural gas into the liquid steel vessels to reduce the amount of airborne emissions; (3) pavement of plant roadways and upgrade of its scrap metal storage area to reduce emissions; (4) enhancements to its gas cleaning equipment; and (5) replacement of numerous electrical transformers containing a dielectric fluid with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentration in excess of 50 parts per 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 of the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States v. USX Corporation, DOJ Ref. 90-5-2-1-2175. The proposed consent decree may be examined at either U.S. EPA Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2029. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044. In requesting a copy of the Consent Decree, please enclose a check in the amount of $12.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) for the Consent Decree alone, and $75.50 for the Consent Decree with all exhibits attached. Checks must be payable to the Consent Decree Library. Joel M. Gross, Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 99-29511 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-15-M