[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 249 (Thursday, December 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68055-68056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32824]
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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 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice
is hereby given that a proposed Stipulated Final Order for Injunctive
Relief (``Consent Decree'') in United States v. City of San Diego, et
al., Civil Action No. 88-1101-B, was lodged on December 13, 1996, with
the United States District Court for the Southern District of
California. The United States brought a complaint under the Clean Water
Act (the ``Act''), as amended, 33 U.S.C. Secs. 1251 et seq., against
the City of San Diego (the ``City'') and against the statutory
defendant the State of California for violations of the Act in
connection with the City's wastewater treatment system.
The proposed consent decree requires the City to implement a number
of long-term and short-term remedial measures designed to ensure
compliance with the Act on a permanent, consistent basis. These
measures include, inter alia, programs to replace concrete sewer mains
in the City's sewer collection system and to conduct a comprehensive
audit of all pump stations and force mains to augment existing records
to provide a basis for future planning efforts.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date 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. City of
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San Diego, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-2987.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, Southern District of California, 880 Front
Street, San Diego, California 92101; at the Region IX Office of the
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California 94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street,
N.W., 4th 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., 4th Floor, Washington,
D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case
and enclose a check in the amount of $4.75 (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. 96-32824 Filed 12-24-96; 8:45 am]
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