[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4079-4080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2034]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Stipulation and Settlement 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. 
Meridian Engineering, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 96-05M was lodged 
on January 13, 1997 in the United States District Court for the 
District of the Virgin Islands. The settlement resolves an action 
commenced in a complaint filed January 12, 1996, under the Clean Water 
Act, 33 U.S.C. 1301, et seq., arising at an asphalt batching plant in 
St. Croix operated by Meridian Engineering, Inc. and the Virgin Islands 
Asphalt Products Corp.
    The Complaint alleges that the Defendants violated the Clean Water 
Act by: (1) Discharging waste water without a National Pollutant 
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit on two occasions, in 
violation of Section 301 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33

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U.S.C. 1311; and (2) failing to apply for a NPDES storm water discharge 
permit, in violation of Sections 308 and 402 of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. 1319 
and 1342. Under the settlement, the Defendants will pay a civil penalty 
to the United States of $47,500.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed settlement. 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. Meridian Engineering, Inc., et al., DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-4224.
    The proposed settlement may be examined at the office of the United 
States Attorney, 1108 King St. #201, Christiansted, St. Croix; the 
Region II Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, 
New York, New York; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, 
NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the 
proposed settlement 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 may payable to the Consent Decree Library in the amount 
of $2.00 (25 cents per page reproduction costs).
Joel M. Gross,
Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-2034 Filed 1-27-97; 8:45 am]
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