[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 122 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32462-32463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15951]



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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 on June 3, 1996, a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. CPF, Inc., Civil Action No. 96-11141-REK, was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts 
resolving the matters alleged in a complaint filed simultaneously with 
the Consent Decree. The proposed Consent Decree concerns violations by 
CPF of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. Secs. 1251, et seq., at 
CPF's beverage bottling facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. The CWA 
violations alleged in the complaint include discharges of pollutants in 
excess of local

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pretreatment standards pursuant to section 307 (b) and (d) of the Act, 
33 U.S.C. Sec. 1317 (b) and (d), and failure to comply with local 
monitoring and reporting requirements.
    Under the terms of the Consent Decree, the defendant will pay a 
civil penalty of $160,786 to the United States. In addition, CPF will 
be required to comply with applicable pretreatment standards, as well 
as comply with monitoring, sampling, and reporting requirements. The 
monitoring requirements include a program of gathering water quality 
data in the Nashua River watershed. CPF will also be required to 
perform four supplemental environmental projects, consisting of the 
acquisition and transfer to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of 
certain conservation land, the performance of two storm drain 
stenciling programs, and the performance of a riverbank stabilization 
project, all at an estimated cost to CPF of $99,625.
    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 of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United 
States v. CPF, Inc., Civil Action No. 96-11141-REK (D. Mass.) DOJ #90-
5-1-1-4292.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Region 1 Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, One Congress Street, Boston, 
Massachusetts; at the office of the United States Attorney, District of 
Massachusetts, 1003 J.W. McCormack P.O. & Courthouse, Boston, MA 02109, 
c/o George B. Henderson, II, Assistant U.S. Attorney; 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. In 
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and enclose a 
check in the amount of $5.25 for the Consent Decree without attachments 
or $9.00 for the Consent Decree with attachments (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) made payable to Consent Decree Library.
Bruce S. Gelber,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 96-15951 Filed 6-21-96; 8:45 am]
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