[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 222 (Thursday, November 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 69340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29290]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Safe Drinking Water 
Act

    Notice is hereby given that on October 30, 2000, a proposed consent 
decree in United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Tafton 
Water Company, et al., Civil Action No. 33: CV 99-263, was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania.
    In this action, the United States and Pennsylvania Department of 
Environmental Protection sought civil penalties, injunctive relief, and 
preliminary injunctive relief for violations of the Safe Drinking Water 
Act and Pennsylvania's Safe Drinking Water Act at the Tafton water 
system which serves the Wilson Hill development in Hawley, 
Pennsylvania. The proposed consent decree would resolve certain claims 
against Winton Consolidated Companies, Inc., Public Service Water 
Company, Tafton Water Company, (``Corporate Defendants'') and Richard 
M.S. Freeman, (collectively, ``the Defendants'') by requiring the 
Corporate Defendants to pay $200,000 in civil penalties and the 
Defendants to pay $4,417.72 to the Wilson Hill Property Owners 
Association Water Company for reimbursement of expenses it incurred at 
the Tafton water system and the transfer of ownership of the Tafton 
water system to an unrelated entity. Additionally, Richard Freeman is 
required to pay $1,000 in stipulated penalties to the United States for 
his violation of a 1999 Consent Decree.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the consent 
decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General 
of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. Tafton Water Company, et al., DOJ #90-5-1-1-06424.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the offices of the 
United States Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, Federal 
Building, 228 Walnut Street, Second Floor, P.O. Box 11754, Harrisburg, 
PA 17108. A copy of the proposed consent decree may also be obtained by 
mail from the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 
7611, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please enclose a 
check in the amount of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Bruce Gelber,
Deputy Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-29290 Filed 11-15-00; 8:45 am]
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