[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 139 (Thursday, July 21, 1994)]
[Unknown Section]
[Page 0]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-17722]


[[Page Unknown]]

[Federal Register: July 21, 1994]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------


DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to Clean Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. City of 
Port St. Joe, Florida, et al., Civil Action No. 92-50227-LAC, was 
lodged on July 8, 1994, with the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Florida. The Complaint in this civil action 
alleged that the City of Port St. Joe, Florida, violated effluent 
limits and other terms and conditions of its NPDES permit for its 
municipal wastewater treatment plant. The Complaint also alleged that 
the St. Joe Forest Products Company committed violations of the pass 
through and interference regulations promulgated under the Clean Water 
Act by excessive discharges of pollutants and contaminants from its 
paper mill to the City's wastewater treatment plant. Under the proposed 
Consent Decree, the Company will pay a civil penalty of $325,000 in 
settlement of the United States' claims, and the City will pay a civil 
penalty of $25,000.
    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, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. City of Port St. Joe, Florida, et al., DOJ. Ref. 90-5-
1-1-3026.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Florida, 114 East Gregory 
Street, Pensacola, Florida; the Region 4 Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30365; 
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 $3.25 (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. 94-17722 Filed 7-20-94; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4410-01-M