[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 115 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 31495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14618]



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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 a proposed consent decree in United States and State 
of Ohio v. City of Akron, Ohio, Case No. 88-CV-2279A, was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on 
May 24, 1995. The proposed consent decree resolves civil Clean Water 
Act claims brought by the United States and the State relating to the 
operation of Akron's wastewater treatment plant and its discharges to 
the Cuyahoga River. The decree requires Akron to perform plant and 
sewer system improvements valued at over $20 million, to pay a civil 
penalty of $290,000 and to perform three supplemental environmental 
projects valued together at $3.325 million. The supplemental 
environmental projects require Akron to extend sewer service to areas 
now served by private septic tanks, to install an advanced radio 
control system for its combined sewer overflow and pump stations, and 
to study odor problems at its wastewater treatment plant.
    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, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States and State of Ohio v. City of Akron, Ohio, Case No. 88-CV-2279A 
and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-5-1-1-3144.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio, 1800 Bank One 
center, 600 Superior Avenue East, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2600; the 
Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; 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 $9.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Acting Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 95-14618 Filed 6-14-95; 8:45 am]
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