[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 62 (Thursday, March 31, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-7687]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, set out in 28 CFR 50.7, 
notice is hereby given that on March 17, 1994, a proposed consent 
decree in full settlement of United States, et al. v. County Sanitation 
Districts of Los Angeles County, Civil Action No. CV 92-0061-RG (JRx), 
was lodged with the United States District Court for the Central 
District of California. In the Complaint in that action, the United 
States seeks civil penalties and injunctive relief for unpermitted 
discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States, and for 
discharges of pollutants in violation of the conditions of CSDLAC's 
permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 
(``NPDES'') and the Clean Water Act. The proposed settlement resolves 
the liability of CSDLAC for all of the violations alleged in the 
complaint.
    Under the terms of the settlement, CSDLAC will comply with a 
schedule calling for full implementation of secondary treatment of all 
of the wastewater treated at CSDLAC's Joint Wastewater Treatment Plant, 
with compliance to be achieved by December 2002, subject to a limited 
extension provision if CSDLAC can demonstrate that compliance by that 
date would result in significant additional environmental harm from 
resuspension of contaminated sediments. CSDLAC will also pay a civil 
penalty of $500,000, with $200,000 of that amount to be paid to the 
State of California, which is a co-plaintiff in this suit. CSDLAC is 
also required to undertake projects providing for increased use of 
reclaimed water and the collection of household hazardous waste.
    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, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. Comments 
should refer to United States v. County Sanitation Districts of Los 
Angeles County, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-3824.
    The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney, Central District of California, 300 North Los Angeles 
Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; at the Region IX Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the 
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 tender a check in the amount of $8.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction charge) payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-7687 Filed 3-30-94; 8:45 am]
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