[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 199 (Monday, October 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 52451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25875]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of First Amended Consent Decree Under the Clean 
Water Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7 notice is hereby given that on September 27, 
2001, a proposed First Amended Consent Decree (``Amended Consent 
Decree'') in United States of America and State of Indiana v. City of 
New Albany, Civil No. NA-90-46-C-B/G was lodged with the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, New Albany 
Division.
    In this action, the United States sought enforcement of a Consent 
Decree entered into in 1993 for Clean Water Act violations at New 
Albany's wastewater treatment plant. The First Amended Consent Decree 
resolves claims of the United States concerning New Albany's wastewater 
treatment facility and sewer collection system for violations of the 
1993 Consent Decree and the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq., 
including, inter alia, bypasses and sanitary sewer overflow events. 
Pursuant to the Amended Consent Decree, New Albany will, among other 
requirements, develop and implement a capacity assurance plan to 
address the bypasses and sanitary sewer overflows at its wastewater 
treatment plant and in the sewer collection system. Also, under the 
Amended Consent Decree, New Albany will pay $180,000 in civil penalties 
for violations of the 1993 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 Amended 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer 
to United States and State of Indiana v. City of New Albany, Civil 
Cause No. NA-90-46-C-B/G, D.J. Ref. 90-5-1-1-3448/A.
    The Amended Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, 10 West Market Street, Suite 2100, 
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-3048 (contact Assistant United States 
Attorney Thomas Kieper at (317) 229-2400), and at U.S. EPA Region 5, 
14th Floor, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 
(contact Deborah A. Carlson at (312) 353-6121). A copy of the Amended 
Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree 
Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20044-7611. In requesting a copy, please enclose a check in the amount 
of $15.00 ($.25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.

W. Benjamin Fisherow,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-25875 Filed 10-12-01; 8:45 am]
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