96-16011. Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity to Comment Regarding Union Electric Company, St. Louis, MO

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 122 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32437-32438]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16011]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5523-5]


Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty 
Assessment and Opportunity to Comment Regarding Union Electric Company, 
St. Louis, MO

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'').

ACTION: Notice of proposed administrative penalty assessment and 
opportunity to comment regarding Union Electric Company, St. Louis, 
Missouri.

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SUMMARY: EPA is providing notice of opportunity to comment on the 
proposed assessment.
    Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders 
assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may 
issue such orders after filing a Complaint commencing either a Class I 
or Class II penalty proceeding. EPA provides public notice of the 
proposed assessment pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1319(g)(4)(A).
    Class II proceedings are conducted under EPA's Consolidated Rules 
of Practice Governing the Administrative Assessment of Civil Penalties 
and the Revocation or Suspension of Permits, 40 CFR part 22. The 
procedures by which the public may submit written comment on a proposed 
Class II order or participate in a Class II proceeding, and the 
procedures by which a respondent may request a hearing, are set forth 
in the Consolidated Rules. The deadline for submitting public comment 
on a proposed Class II order is thirty (30) days after issuance of 
public notice.
    On June 24, 1995, EPA commenced the following Class II proceeding 
for the assessment of penalties by filing with the Regional Hearing 
Clerk, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region VII, 726 Minnesota 
Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101, [phone], the following 
Complaint: In the Matter of Union Electric Company, St. Louis, 
Missouri, EPCRA Docket No. VII-95E-158 and CWA Docket No. VII-95-W-001.
    The Complaint proposes a penalty of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) 
for the discharge of Mercury into the Mississippi River, on September 
28, 1994, without a permit issued under Section 402 of the Clean Water 
Act, in violation of Section 301 of the Clean Water Act.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Persons wishing to receive a copy of EPA's 
Consolidated Rules, review the Complaint or other documents filed in 
this proceeding, comment upon the proposed penalty assessment, or 
otherwise participate in the proceeding should contact the Regional 
Hearing clerk identified above.
    The administrative record for the proceeding is located in the EPA 
Regional Office at the address stated above, and the file will be open 
for public inspection during normal business hours. All information 
submitted by Union Electric Company is available as part of the 
administrative record, subject to provisions of law restricting public 
disclosure of confidential information. In order to provide opportunity 
for public

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comment, EPA will issue no final order assessing a penalty in this 
proceeding prior to thirty (30) days from the date of this notice.

    Dated: June 5, 1996.
Delores J. Platit,
Acting Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-16011 Filed 6-21-96; 8:45 am]
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