[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 249 (Thursday, December 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68055-68056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32824]


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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 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice 
is hereby given that a proposed Stipulated Final Order for Injunctive 
Relief (``Consent Decree'') in United States v. City of San Diego, et 
al., Civil Action No. 88-1101-B, was lodged on December 13, 1996, with 
the United States District Court for the Southern District of 
California. The United States brought a complaint under the Clean Water 
Act (the ``Act''), as amended, 33 U.S.C. Secs. 1251 et seq., against 
the City of San Diego (the ``City'') and against the statutory 
defendant the State of California for violations of the Act in 
connection with the City's wastewater treatment system.
    The proposed consent decree requires the City to implement a number 
of long-term and short-term remedial measures designed to ensure 
compliance with the Act on a permanent, consistent basis. These 
measures include, inter alia, programs to replace concrete sewer mains 
in the City's sewer collection system and to conduct a comprehensive 
audit of all pump stations and force mains to augment existing records 
to provide a basis for future planning efforts.
    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, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States v. City of

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San Diego, et al., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-2987.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Southern District of California, 880 Front 
Street, San Diego, California 92101; at the Region IX Office of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
N.W., 4th 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, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $4.75 (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. 96-32824 Filed 12-24-96; 8:45 am]
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