[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 71 (Thursday, April 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 16114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8860]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Safe Drinking
Water Act
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v.
Selleck, Inc. and Robert E. Schaefer, Civil Action No. C93-1004Z, was
lodged on March 29, 1996 with the United States District Court for the
Western District of Washington in Seattle. The terms of the proposed
Consent Decree provides as follows: (1) Defendants are required to pay
a civil penalty of $20,000; (2) defendant Selleck is required to admit
liability for violating an Emergency Administrative Order and for
specified violations of the National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations; (3) defendants agree to undertake a Supplemental
Environmental Project with an estimated value in excess of $60,000; (4)
defendant Schaefer is required immediately to resign from any and all
positions he holds with Selleck and is permanently enjoined from
participating in any operational or ownership capacity in connection
with any other surface or ground water system; (5) defendants have
agreed to substantial stipulated penalties for future violations of the
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations and/or the deadlines and
other provisions of the Consent Decree.
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, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. Selleck, Inc. and Robert E. Schaefer, DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-
5029.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the
United States Attorney, 800 Fifth Ave., Suite 3600, Seattle, WA 98102;
the Region X Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth
Ave., Suite 1503, Seattle, WA 98101; 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 refer to the
referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $7.00 (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. 96-8860 Filed 4-10-96; 8:45 am]
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