[Federal Register: March 15, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 49)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree

    In accordance with Departmental policy and 28 CFR 50.7, please be 
advised that a proposed Consent Decree was lodged on February 24, 1999, 
in United States v. Crozer Chester Medical Center, et al., C.A. No. 97-
CV-4376, with the United States District Court for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania. The Consent Decree resolves litigation brought by the 
United States under Section 113(b) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 
7413(b), for alleged violations of the Pennsylvania State 
Implementation Plan (``SIP''). At issue were emissions and operating 
practices at a hospital waste incinerator (``HWI''). Defendants 
voluntarily shut down the incinerator shortly before the lawsuit was 
filed, and have since permanently closed the HWI.
    Under the Consent Decree, Defendant Eastern Power Corporation (now 
known as Statoil Energy Power, Inc.) will pay a civil penalty of 
$250,000. Defendant Crozer Chester Medical Center (``Crozer'') will 
perform a Supplemental Environmental Project (``SEP'') estimated to 
cost $250,000. Under the SEP, Crozer will institute an asthma detection 
program for first, sixth, and eleventh grade students in the Chester-
Uplands public school system. All students diagnosed as asthmatic will 
be enrolled in an Asthma Management Program designed to increase 
students' exercise capacity and reduce: time lost from school; 
nocturnal asthma; emergency room visits; and effects from medications.
    Any comments on the proposed Consent Decree 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. Crozer Chester Medical Center, et al., 
DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-2110. The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at 
the office of the United States Attorney, Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, 615 Chestnut Street, Twelfth Floor, Philadelphia, PA 
19106, and the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 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, (202) 624-0892. The proposed Consent Decree contains 51 
pages, including the attachment describing the SEP. To obtain the 
Consent Decree, with the attachment, please enclose a check for $12.75. 
Please make the check payable to the Consent Decree Library, and refer 
to the case by its title and DOJ Ref. #90-5-2-1-2110.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-6233 Filed 3-12-99; 8:45 am]
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