[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25689-25690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12774]
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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 consent decree settling claims brought
by the United States and the State of Indiana against Defendant
American Chemical Service, Inc. in United States v. Sanitary District
of Hammond, et al., Civil Action No.
[[Page 25690]]
2:93 CV 225 JM, was lodged on April 25, 1996 with the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. The proposed
consent decree resolves claims against American Chemical Service, Inc.
for penalties and injunctive relief pursuant to Section 309 of the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1319, in connection with wastewater
discharges from the American Chemical Service facility in Griffith,
Indiana to publicly owned sewers. The proposed consent decree requires
American Chemical Service to pay a civil penalty of $59,500 to the
United States and $25,500 to the State. In addition, the decree
requires American Chemical Service to undertake actions that will bring
it into compliance with the effluent limit for toluene prescribed in
the industrial discharge permit issued to it by the Hammond Sanitary
District.
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. Sanitary District of Hammond, et al., Civil Action No. 2:93
CV 225 JM, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-5-1-1-3308A.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the
United States Attorney, Northern District of Indiana, 1001 Main Street,
Suite A, Dyer, Indiana, 46311; the Region 5 Office of the Environmental
Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-
3590; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NE., 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 $4.50 (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. 96-12774 Filed 5-21-96; 8:45 am]
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