[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 4440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1879]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    Notice is hereby given that proposed consent decrees embodying 
settlements in United States and State of California v. City of Los 
Angeles and City of Burbank, et al., Civ No. 77-3047-HP were lodged on 
December 30, 1999, with the United States District Court for the 
Central District of California.
    The Third Amended and Supplemental Complaint filed jointly by the 
United States and the State of California alleged, among other things, 
that the cities of Los Angeles and Burbank had violated the 
pretreatment requirements established under section 307(b) of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1317(b). Specifically, the complaint alleged 
that the cities failed to adequately implement their required 
pretreatment programs, in that they failed to ensure that industrial 
dischargers to the cities' treatment works complied with the discharge 
and monitoring requirements of the pretreatment regulations. The State 
pled parallel claims under the California Water Code. The complaint 
sought civil penalties and injunctive relief against the cities.
    The proposed consent decree resolves the liability of the cities 
for the violations alleged in the complaint. Under the decree, Los 
Angeles will pay a civil penalty of $236,000 and perform Supplemental 
Environmental Projects (water reclamation and low-flow storm discharge 
diversion) projected to cost at least $15 million. Burbank will pay a 
civil penalty of $137,000 and perform a Supplemental Environmental 
Project (advanced secondary treatment upgrades) estimated to cost at 
least $2.1 million.
    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 decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to 
United States and State of California v. City of Los Angeles and City 
of Burbank, et al., DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-809B.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Central District of California, Federal 
Building, Room 7516, 300 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, 
California 90012; and at the Region IX Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 
94105. A copy of the Consent Decree may be also be obtained by mail 
from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-
7611. In requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and 
enclose a check in the amount of $6.75 for the Los Angeles decree and 
$6.00 for the Burbank decree (25 cents per page reproduction costs), 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
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