[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 44 (Friday, March 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11309-11310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5793]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act
Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on February 19,
1998, a
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proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Borough of Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 94-3090 was lodged with the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In this action the United States sought injunctive relief and civil
penalties for the Borough of Pottstown's (``Pottstown'') discharges of
effluent from its wastewater treatment plant in excess of limits set
forth in its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Pottstown's wastewater treatment plant discharges into the Schuylkill
River. Since filing the complaint in this action in June 1994,
Pottstown brought its plant into compliance with its permit, making
injunctive relief unnecessary. Under the proposed Consent Decree,
Pottstown will pay a civil penalty of $16,500. It will also spend
$58,000 to perform a Supplemental Environmental Project, which consists
of monitoring the Schuylkill River watershed to determine the sources
of contamination to the river and to determine the impacts of this
contamination on drinking water supplies and on future recreational
uses of the river.
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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to
United States v. Borough of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-
1-2487B.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19106, at U.S. EPA Region 3, 841 Chestnut Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 and at the Consent Decree Library,
1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 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, NW., 4th Floor,
Washington, DC 20005. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in
the amount of $6.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to
the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-5793 Filed 3-5-98; 8:45 am]
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