Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 231 (Thursday, December 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67586-67587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31245]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. Ford Motor Company (E.D. Mich.), Case No. 99-60670, entered 
into by plaintiffs United States of America, Department of 
Environmental Quality, State of Michigan, and Wayne County, Michigan 
and defendant Ford Motor Company was lodged on November 17, 1999 with 
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. 
The proposed Consent Decree resolves certain claims under Section 
113(b) of the Clean Air Act (``the Act''), 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7413(b), 
against the defendant with respect to VOC emissions from coating lines 
at three of its facilities: the Michigan Truck Assembly Plant located 
at 38303 Michigan Avenue, Wayne, Michigan; the Dearborn Assembly Plant 
located at 3001 Miller Road, Dearborn, Michigan; and the Wayne Assembly 
Plant located at 37625 Michigan Avenue, Wayne, Michigan. Under the 
Consent Decree, Ford will pay a civil penalty of $1.1 million (to be 
divided equally among the United States, Michigan, and Wayne County) 
and will implement a supplemental environmental project that will 
change its primer system at its Dearborn Assembly facility from a 
solvent-based system to a waterborne primer system.
    The Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the 
proposed Consent Decree for 30 days following the publication of this 
Notice. 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. 
Ford Motor Company, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-2-1-06026, -06026/2, -06026/3. 
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality will also be taking 
public comment and holding a public hearing, if requested, on Ford's 
request for amendment to its State Permit to Install, No. 454-96a, for 
the installation and operation of the waterborne primer supplemental 
environmental project at the Dearborn Assembly facility as a pollution 
control project, which proposed amended permit is attached as 
Attachment D to the Consent Decree. The proposed Consent Decree may be 
examined at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Michigan, 211 W. Fort St., Suite 2300, Detroit, MI 48226-
3211 and the Region V Office of the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604. A 
copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by overnight mail 
addressed to the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 13th 
Floor, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, or by regular 
mail addressed to the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, PO 
Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044.
    In requesting a copy of the Consent Decree, please enclose a check 
in the amount of $17.50 (25 cents per page for

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reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Walker B. Smith,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-31245 Filed 12-1-99; 8:45 am]
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