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[FR Doc No: 94-13953]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
 

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 a proposed consent decree in United States and 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Delaware Regional Water Quality Control 
Authority, Civil Action No. 91-2787, was lodged on May 24, 1994 with 
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania.
    The Consent Decree concerns violations of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (also known as the ``Clean Water Act''), 33 
U.S.C. 1251 et seq., and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. 
Sec. 691.2 et seq., at the defendant's publicly-owned municipal and 
residential wastewater treatment plant located in Chester, 
Pennsylvania.
    The complaint in this action alleged that, from 1986-91, the 
defendant discharged pollutants into the Delaware River in excess of 
several of the effluent limitations established in its National 
Pollutant Discharge Elimination system (``NPDES'') permit; discharged, 
on several occasions, untreated wastewater into tributaries of the 
Delaware River; failed to operate all of its facilities and equipment 
as required by its permit; and failed to comply with certain sampling 
and reporting requirements of its permit. The proposed Consent Decree 
requires defendant to comply fully with all terms and conditions of its 
NPDES permit, to construct and operate an additional secondary 
clarifier at its plant by May 1, 1997, and to pay a civil penalty of 
$350,000, plus interest that has accrued on that sum since May 1992.
    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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Delaware Regional 
Water Quality Control Authority (E.D. Pa.), DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-3445.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 615 Chestnut Street, suite 1300, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania 19106; the Region III Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 841 Chestnut Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
19107; 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 $6.75 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
John C. Cruden,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 94-13953 Filed 6-8-94; 8:45 am]
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