[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 63 (Friday, April 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 15990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8141]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a Third Consent Decree Modifying First and Second 
Consent Decrees in United States v. Hamm's Holiday Harbor, Inc. and 
Richard E. Hamm, No. 89-1287 (C.D. Ill.), was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Central District of Illinois on March 15, 
1999. This Consent Decree modifies two existing consent decrees entered 
into by the Plaintiff United States and Defendants Hamm's Holiday 
Harbor, Inc. and Richard E. Hamm pursuant to section 309 of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319, and section 12 of the Rivers and Harbors 
Act, 33 U.S.C. 406, providing for injunctive relief and imposing civil 
penalties upon the Defendants for discharge of dredged or fill material 
in violation of section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 
1311(a), and sections 10 and 13 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, 33 
U.S.C. 403, 407, at two sites along the Illinois River in Peoria County 
and Marshall County, Illinois.
    The Consent Decree prohibits additional illegal discharges by the 
Defendants, and requires Defendants to, among other things: (1) Forfeit 
in fee a 90-acre parcel in Marshall County, Illinois to the Illinois 
Department of Natural Resources (``IDNR''); (2) pay money to be used 
for environmental restoration on a portion of the Marshall County site; 
(3) pay stipulated penalties to the United States for Defendants' 
violations of the two previous consent decrees; and (4) complete all 
outstanding environmental remedial tasks at the Peoria County site that 
were required under the first of the previous consent decrees.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to 
this proposed Consent Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of 
publication of this notice. Please address comments to Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United 
States Department of Justice, Attention: Seth M. Barsky, P.O. Box 
23986, Washington, DC 20026-3986 and refer to United States v. Hamm's 
Holiday Harbor, Inc. and Richard E. Hamm, DJ #90-5-1-1-4444.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, 305 
Federal Building, 100 N.E. Monroe Street, Peoria, Illinois 61602.
Anna L. Wolgast,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-8141 Filed 4-1-99; 8:45 am]
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