[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 16870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8928]


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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 a proposed consent decree in United States v. Trident 
Seafoods Corporation, Civil Action No. A 97093:Civil:HRH, was lodged on 
March 17, 1997 with the United States District Court for the District 
of Alaska. The complaint was brought under section 309 of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319 for effluent limitations, environmental 
effects, reporting, sampling, and monitoring violations of two National 
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (``NPDES'') permits in violation 
of section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), at 
Trident's Akutan Island and Sand Point seafood processing facilities in 
Alaska.
    Under the Consent Decree Trident will pay a civil penalty of 
$418,150, and implement environmental pollution reduction activities. 
Additionally, Trident will implement a comprehensive environmental 
compliance management program, to include rigorous auditing procedures.
    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. Trident Seafoods Corporation, DOJ REF. #90-5-1-1-2002B.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Federal Building and Courthouse, 222 W. 7th 
Avenue, #9, Room 253, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7567; the Region X Office 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, 
Washington 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 reference case and 
enclose a check in the amount of $8.00 (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. 97-8928 Filed 4-7-97; 8:45 am]
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