[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56164-56165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27479]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water
Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed amended consent decree (``Amended
Decree'') in United States v. Government of the Virgin Islands, Civil
Action No. 84-104, as well as a Stipulated Modifications of Consent
Decree (``Stipulation''), were lodged on October 11, 1995 with the
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United States District Court for the Virgin Islands.
In March 1984, the United States filed a complaint against the
Government of the Virgin Islands (``VI'') alleging violations of the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq. (the ``Act''). In
September 1985, the United States and the VI entered into a consent
decree (``Original Decree'') to resolve the claims in the complaint. In
March 1991, the United States filed a motion seeking to hold the VI in
contempt for certain violations of the Original Decree. The Amended
Decree and Stipulation are a resolution of this motion for contempt.
Pursuant to the Amended Decree and the Stipulation, the VI will pay
a penalty of $375,000 for violations of the Original Decree. The VI has
also agreed, inter alia, to (1) construct a new wastewater treatment
plant on St. Thomas, known as the Mangrove Lagoon Regional Wastewater
Treatment Plant, pursuant to a revised timetable, (2) construct a new
wastewater treatment plant on St. John, known as the Cruz Bay Regional
Wastewater Treatment Plant, (3) place $2 million into a corrective
action trust fund over a period of two years to fund certain specific
operational improvements at nine wastewater treatment plants operated
by the VI (these plants include Charlotte Amalie, Donoe, Old Tutu, New
Tutu, Nadir, Bordeaux, Brassview, Vessup Bay, and St. Croix), and (4)
meet interim effluent limits for a certain period of time, after which
final Territorial Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit limits
would be met, at the nine wastewater treatment plants listed above, as
well as at the Brassview and George Simmonds plants.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed Amended Decree and Stipulation. Comments should be addressed
to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural
Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and
should refer to United States v. Government of the Virgin Islands, DOJ.
No. 90-5-1-1-1911A.
The proposed Amended Decree and Stipulation may be examined at the
Region 2 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway,
New York, NY, at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Federal Building and U.S.
Courthouse, 5500 Veterans Drive, Suite 260, St. Thomas 00802-6424, and
at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor,
Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed Amended
Decree and Stipulation may be obtained in person or by mail from the
Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC
20005. In requesting a copy of the proposed Amended Decree and
Stipulation please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in
the amount of $16.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-27479 Filed 11-6-95; 8:45 am]
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