[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 57 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 11866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6935]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Stipulation and Settlement Under the Clean 
Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Stipulation and Settlement in U.S. v. 
Caribe Tuna, Inc., Civ. No. 91-1926 (D.P.R.), was lodged on March 13, 
1996 with the United States District Court for the District of Puerto 
Rico. The complaint in this action seeks injunctive relief and civil 
penalties under Section 301 of the Clean Water Act (``the Act''), 33 
U.S.C. 1311, in connection with Caribe Tuna, Inc.'s (``CTI'') operation 
of a tuna processing plant located in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
    The proposed Stipulation and Settlement provides for CTI to pay a 
civil penalty to the United States of $300,000.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed Stipulation and Settlement. Comments should be addressed to 
the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to U.S. v. 
Caribe Tuna, Inc., DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-1-3638.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Federal Office Building, Room 452, Carlos E. 
Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918; the Region II Office of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, Region II Records Center, 290 
Broadway, New York, New York 10007-1866; and at the Consent Decree 
Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., Fourth Floor, Washington, D.C. 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, 
Fourth Floor, N.W. Washington D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please 
refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $2.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-6935 Filed 3-21-96; 8:45 am]
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