Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43719-43720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20746]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water 
Act

    In accordance with Department policy, 28 U.S.C. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Texmark 
Chemicals, Inc., Civil Action No. H-99-2437, was lodged on July 29, 
1999, with the United

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States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
    The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Sections 309(b) 
and (d) of the Clean Water Act (``the Act''), 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and 
(d). The consent Decree provides for Texmark's payment of a civil 
penalty to the United States in the amount of $129,816, requires 
injunctive relief to bring Texmark into compliance with the Clean Water 
Act, and requires Texmark to implement and complete two Supplemental 
Environmental Projects (``SEPs'') costing in the aggregate $95,790 at 
its Galena Park, Harris County, Texas facility.
    The Vacuum Pumps SEP involves the replacement of its two steam jets 
in the DCPD Distillation Process with two vacuum pumps thereby 
eliminating process wastewater in its process system. Because process 
wastewater will no longer be generated in the production of DCPD, the 
proposed SEP will reduce the average flow through outfall 001 by 
between 50% and 78%; process wastewater flow would concurrently be 
reduced by between 55% and 87%.
    The Rail Car Overfill Prevention SEP will augment Texmark's 
existing rail car loading process to prevent the inadvertent 
overfilling of rail cars at the facility. The SEP will employ a micro-
motion meter system which consists of a senor, transmitter, totalizer 
and probe. The sensor will measure mass, volume, density and 
temperature. The SEP will prevent spills occurring as the result of 
rail car filling thus benefitting the environment.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the ate 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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. Texmark Chemicals, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-4527.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas, 910 Travis Suite 
1500, Houston, Texas 77208; the Region VI Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas, and at the Consent 
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 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, 
N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please 
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $6.75 
(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. 99-20746 Filed 8-10-99; 8:45 am]
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