[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 122 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32462-32463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15951]
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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 CFR 50.7, notice is
hereby given that on June 3, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree in United
States v. CPF, Inc., Civil Action No. 96-11141-REK, was lodged with the
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
resolving the matters alleged in a complaint filed simultaneously with
the Consent Decree. The proposed Consent Decree concerns violations by
CPF of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. Secs. 1251, et seq., at
CPF's beverage bottling facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. The CWA
violations alleged in the complaint include discharges of pollutants in
excess of local
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pretreatment standards pursuant to section 307 (b) and (d) of the Act,
33 U.S.C. Sec. 1317 (b) and (d), and failure to comply with local
monitoring and reporting requirements.
Under the terms of the Consent Decree, the defendant will pay a
civil penalty of $160,786 to the United States. In addition, CPF will
be required to comply with applicable pretreatment standards, as well
as comply with monitoring, sampling, and reporting requirements. The
monitoring requirements include a program of gathering water quality
data in the Nashua River watershed. CPF will also be required to
perform four supplemental environmental projects, consisting of the
acquisition and transfer to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of
certain conservation land, the performance of two storm drain
stenciling programs, and the performance of a riverbank stabilization
project, all at an estimated cost to CPF of $99,625.
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, DC 20530, and should refer to United
States v. CPF, Inc., Civil Action No. 96-11141-REK (D. Mass.) DOJ #90-
5-1-1-4292.
The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office
of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston,
Massachusetts; at the office of the United States Attorney, District of
Massachusetts, 1003 J.W. McCormack P.O. & Courthouse, Boston, MA 02109,
c/o George B. Henderson, II, Assistant U.S. Attorney; 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. In
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a
check in the amount of $5.25 for the Consent Decree without attachments
or $9.00 for the Consent Decree with attachments (25 cents per page
reproduction cost) made payable to Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-15951 Filed 6-21-96; 8:45 am]
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