[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 17890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9447]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act

    In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on 
March 23, 1998, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Florida 
Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No. 97-711-CIV-T-26E, was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Middle District of 
Florida, Tampa Division.
    In this action, the United States sought civil penalties under 
Sections 301(a) and 309(b) and (d) of the Clean Water Act (the 
``Act''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1319(b) and (d), for violations of 
effluent limits set forth in the NPDES permits applicable to discharges 
from Defendant's Seaboard Utilities wastewater treatment plant located 
in Hillsborough County, Florida, and from Defendant's University Shores 
wastewater treatment plant located in Orange County, Florida. Under the 
proposed consent decree, the Defendant will pay a civil penalty of 
$250,000, and implement a Supplemental Environmental Project (``SEP''), 
valued at approximately $200,000, and an additional project, valued at 
approximately $450,000. The SEP will entail the acquisition and 
operation of a real-time monitoring system at the Defendant's Deltona 
Lakes Wastewater treatment plant in Volusia County, Florida, and the 
additional project will entail the expansion of the current water reuse 
project at the Deltona plant to provide reclaimed water to an 
elementary school and two residential subdivisions for landscape 
irrigation.
    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. Florida Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No. 
97-711-CIV-T-26E, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-4290.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Middle District of Florida, Robert Timberlake 
Bldg., 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida 33602; the Region IV 
Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta Federal Center, 
61 Forsyth St., S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104; 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 of the 
proposed decree and attachments, please refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $10.75 (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. 98-9447 Filed 4-9-98; 8:45 am]
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