[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 71 (Thursday, April 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 16114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8860]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Safe Drinking 
Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. 
Selleck, Inc. and Robert E. Schaefer, Civil Action No. C93-1004Z, was 
lodged on March 29, 1996 with the United States District Court for the 
Western District of Washington in Seattle. The terms of the proposed 
Consent Decree provides as follows: (1) Defendants are required to pay 
a civil penalty of $20,000; (2) defendant Selleck is required to admit 
liability for violating an Emergency Administrative Order and for 
specified violations of the National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations; (3) defendants agree to undertake a Supplemental 
Environmental Project with an estimated value in excess of $60,000; (4) 
defendant Schaefer is required immediately to resign from any and all 
positions he holds with Selleck and is permanently enjoined from 
participating in any operational or ownership capacity in connection 
with any other surface or ground water system; (5) defendants have 
agreed to substantial stipulated penalties for future violations of the 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations and/or the deadlines and 
other provisions of the Consent Decree.
    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 v. Selleck, Inc. and Robert E. Schaefer, DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-
5029.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 800 Fifth Ave., Suite 3600, Seattle, WA 98102; 
the Region X Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth 
Ave., Suite 1503, Seattle, WA 98101; 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 $7.00 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8860 Filed 4-10-96; 8:45 am]
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