[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1319]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice 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 v.Yaffe 
Iron and Metal Company, Inc., Civil Action No. 95-308-B, was lodged on 
December 30, 1996 with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Oklahoma.
    The proposed consent decree relates to Yaffe's twenty-acre metal 
reclamation facility located in Muskogee, Oklahoma. This facility is 
used to recover aluminum and copper from scrap metal. The complaint in 
this civil action alleges that Yaffe discharges process waste water to 
an unnamed, intermittent creek, (``UI Creek'') which is connected to 
Coody Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River.
    The proposed consent decree requires Yaffe to pay a civil penalty 
of $150,000.00, complete its application for a NPDES permit, and have 
performed, by an independent company, an environmental audit and 
correct all violations of environmental statutes disclosed by such 
audit.
    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. Yaffee Iron and Metal Company, Inc., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-
1-5019.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, 33 U.S. Courthouse, 5th & Okmulgee Streets, 
Muskogee, Oklahoma 74401; the Region VI Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75202-
2733; 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 DOJ 
Reference Number and enclose a check in the amount of $26.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division.
[FR Doc. 97-1319 Filed 1-17-97; 8:45 am]
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