[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 18406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10004]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5996-3]


Notice of Proposed Assessment of Clean Water Act Class I 
Administrative Penalty to Campbell Soup Company and opportunity to 
comment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed administrative penalty assessment and 
opportunity to comment.

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SUMMARY: EPA is providing notice of proposed administrative penalty 
assessment for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. EPA is also 
providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment.
    Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders 
assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may 
issue these orders after the commencement of either a Class I or Class 
II penalty proceeding. EPA provides public notice of the proposed 
assessments pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1319(g)(4)(a).
    Class I proceedings are conducted under EPA's proposed Consolidated 
Rules of Practice Governing the Administrative Assessment of Civil 
Penalties and the Revocation and Suspension of Permits, 40 CFR Part 22. 
The procedures through which the public may submit written comment on a 
proposed Class I order or participate in a Class I proceeding, and the 
Procedures by which a Respondent may request a hearing, are set forth 
in the Consolidated Rules. The deadline for submitting public comment 
on a proposed Class I order is thirty days after publication of this 
notice.
    On the date identified below, EPA commenced the following Class I 
proceeding for the assessment of penalties:

    In the Matter of Campbell Soup Company, located at 6200 Franklin 
Boulevard, Sacramento, California 95824; EPA Docket No. CWA-IX-FY98-
01; filed on April 2, 1998, with Ms. Danielle Carr, Regional Hearing 
Clerk, U.S. EPA, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 
California 94105, (415) 744-1391; proposed penalty of $10,445 for 
failure to submit self-monitoring reports with toxic organics 
results in 1995, 1996 and part of 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Persons wishing to receive a copy of EPA's 
Consolidated Rules, review of the complaint or other documents filed in 
this proceeding, comment upon a proposed assessment, or otherwise 
participate in the proceeding should contact the Regional Hearing Clerk 
identified above. The administrative record for this proceeding is 
located in the EPA Regional Office identified above, and the file will 
be open for public inspection during normal business hours. All 
information submitted by the respondent is available as part of the 
administrative record, subject to provisions of law restricting public 
disclosure of confidential information. In order to provide opportunity 
for public comment, EPA will issue no final order assessing a penalty 
in these proceedings prior to thirty (30) days after the date of 
publication of this notice.

    Dated: August 6, 1998.
Alexis Strauss,
Acting Director, Water Division, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 98-10004 Filed 4-14-98; 8:45 am]
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