[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 17890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9447]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act
In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on
March 23, 1998, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Florida
Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No. 97-711-CIV-T-26E, was
lodged with the United States District Court for the Middle District of
Florida, Tampa Division.
In this action, the United States sought civil penalties under
Sections 301(a) and 309(b) and (d) of the Clean Water Act (the
``Act''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1319(b) and (d), for violations of
effluent limits set forth in the NPDES permits applicable to discharges
from Defendant's Seaboard Utilities wastewater treatment plant located
in Hillsborough County, Florida, and from Defendant's University Shores
wastewater treatment plant located in Orange County, Florida. Under the
proposed consent decree, the Defendant will pay a civil penalty of
$250,000, and implement a Supplemental Environmental Project (``SEP''),
valued at approximately $200,000, and an additional project, valued at
approximately $450,000. The SEP will entail the acquisition and
operation of a real-time monitoring system at the Defendant's Deltona
Lakes Wastewater treatment plant in Volusia County, Florida, and the
additional project will entail the expansion of the current water reuse
project at the Deltona plant to provide reclaimed water to an
elementary school and two residential subdivisions for landscape
irrigation.
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. Florida Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No.
97-711-CIV-T-26E, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-4290.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Middle District of Florida, Robert Timberlake
Bldg., 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida 33602; the Region IV
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta Federal Center,
61 Forsyth St., S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104; 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 of the
proposed decree and attachments, please refer to the referenced case
and enclose a check in the amount of $10.75 (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. 98-9447 Filed 4-9-98; 8:45 am]
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