[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 149 (Monday, August 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41975-41976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20408]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water 
Act

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United 
States v. Johnson Engineering, Inc. & Lee County School Board, Civil 
No. 97-283-CIV-FTM-24D (M.D. Fla.), was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Middle District of Florida on July 23, 1997. The 
proposed Consent Decree concerns alleged violations of sections 301(a) 
and 404 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Secs. 1311(a) and 1344, 
resulting from the unauthorized discharge of fill material into 
wetlands located within

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the approximately 19-acre Colonial Elementary School Site in the City 
of Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida. The defendant, Lee County School 
Board is alleged to have owned or controlled the Site and to have 
discharged unauthorized fill material or to have controlled, directed, 
or participated in unauthorized filling activities at the Site. The Lee 
County School Board has agreed to a proposed Consent Decree to settle 
its alleged violations of the Clean Water Act.
    The proposed Consent Decree would require the Lee County School 
Board to pay a $7,500 civil penalty and to create approximately 2.1 
acres of wetlands on-site in mitigation for those wetlands destroyed. 
The Decree would also permanently enjoin the Lee County School Board 
from committing future Clean Water Act violations at the Site.
    The U.S. Department of Justice will receive written comments 
relating to the proposed Consent Decree for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of publication of this notice. Comments should be 
addressed to S. Randall Humm, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, Washington, 
D.C. 20026-3986 and should refer to United States v. Johnson 
Engineering, Inc. & Lee County School Board, Civil No. 97-283-CIV-FTM-
24D (M.D. Fla.), DJ# 90-5-1-6-626.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2301 
First Street, Room 106, Fort Myers, Florida 33901.
Letitia J. Grishaw,
Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, United States Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 97-20408 Filed 8-1-97; 8:45 am]
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