Federal Register: July 2, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 127)
DOCID: FR Doc 03-16777
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Justice Department
NOTICE: NOTICES
ACTION: Pollution control; consent judgments:
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Air Act
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with that on June 18, 2003, the United States lodged a proposed Consent Decree with the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, United States v. Northern States Power Co., a Wisconsin corporation, doing business, as Xcel Energy, Case No. 03C0330C (W.D. Wis.), under the Clean Air Act (``CAA''). The proposed consent Decree resolves specific allegations and claims of the United States Against Northern States Power Co. (``NSP''), arising out of the company's operation of an electricity generating facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The French Island Plant is located on the Mississippi River at 200 South Bainbridge Street, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, which is within the Western District of Wisconsin.
The consent Decree requires NSP to install and operate pollution
control equipment on each municipal waste combustor (``MWC'') necessary
to come into compliance with emission limits for large MWC's, with the
exception the carbon monoxide (``CO'') emission limitation. NSP has
already installed a dry lime injection scrubber and pulse jet baghouse
on each MWC, and installed a Selective Noncatalytic Reduction process
to control nitrous oxide (``NO
In addition, NSP will complete all training requirements no later than 6 months from the lodging date of the Consent Decree, and will comply with applicable recordkeeping and recording requirements. It has also agreed to implement a plan to minimize CO emissions during the pendency of the Decree.
NSP is currently unable to meet the large MWC CO emission
limitation of 100 ppmv consistently. On July 8, 2002, NSP submitted a
Petition to EPA's Administrator to modify the CO emission limitation in
the large MWC regulations. The Consent Decree requires that, during the
pendency of the petition, NSP undertake significant steps to minimize the potential for CO exceedences. NSP is also required to
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report any CO emission limitation exceedance. Moreover, if EPA does not
agree to modify the CO emission limitation included in the large MWC
regulations, the Consent Decree reserves EPA's right to requires NSP to
install further control equipment upgrades or other facility changes
necessary to comply with the then applicable CO emission limit.
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, NSP will pay a civil penalty of $500,000 to the United States.
The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to
the proposed Consent Decree for 30 days after publication of this
Notice. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044
7611, and should refer to United States v. NSP, Case Number 03C0330C
(W.D. Wis.), DJ Ref.
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division.
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SUMMARY:
Northern States Power Co.,
DOCUMENT BODY 2:
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with that on June 18, 2003, the United States lodged a proposed Consent Decree with the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, United States v. Northern States Power Co., a Wisconsin corporation, doing business, as Xcel Energy, Case No. 03C0330C (W.D. Wis.), under the Clean Air Act (``CAA''). The proposed consent Decree resolves specific allegations and claims of the United States Against Northern States Power Co. (``NSP''), arising out of the company's operation of an electricity generating facility in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The French Island Plant is located on the Mississippi River at 200 South Bainbridge Street, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, which is within the Western District of Wisconsin.
The consent Decree requires NSP to install and operate pollution
control equipment on each municipal waste combustor (``MWC'') necessary
to come into compliance with emission limits for large MWC's, with the
exception the carbon monoxide (``CO'') emission limitation. NSP has
already installed a dry lime injection scrubber and pulse jet baghouse
on each MWC, and installed a Selective Noncatalytic Reduction process
to control nitrous oxide (``NO
In addition, NSP will complete all training requirements no later than 6 months from the lodging date of the Consent Decree, and will comply with applicable recordkeeping and recording requirements. It has also agreed to implement a plan to minimize CO emissions during the pendency of the Decree.
NSP is currently unable to meet the large MWC CO emission
limitation of 100 ppmv consistently. On July 8, 2002, NSP submitted a
Petition to EPA's Administrator to modify the CO emission limitation in
the large MWC regulations. The Consent Decree requires that, during the
pendency of the petition, NSP undertake significant steps to minimize the potential for CO exceedences. NSP is also required to
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report any CO emission limitation exceedance. Moreover, if EPA does not
agree to modify the CO emission limitation included in the large MWC
regulations, the Consent Decree reserves EPA's right to requires NSP to
install further control equipment upgrades or other facility changes
necessary to comply with the then applicable CO emission limit.
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, NSP will pay a civil penalty of $500,000 to the United States.
The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to
the proposed Consent Decree for 30 days after publication of this
Notice. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General,
Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044
7611, and should refer to United States v. NSP, Case Number 03C0330C
(W.D. Wis.), DJ Ref.
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division.
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