[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 54781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-27200]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. New 
Castle County, Delaware, Delaware Department of Transportation, and the 
State of Delaware, Civil Action No.01:586-SLR, was lodged with the 
United States Court for the District of Delaware on August 29, 2001.
    The proposed consent decree pertains to alleged violations of the 
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311 et seq. for the unpermitted discharge 
of pollutants into the navigable waters of the United States via New 
Castle County's and Delaware Department of Transportation's municipal 
separate storm sewer systems, and for failure to obtain an effective 
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Response (``NPDES'') 
permit in violation of section 402 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 
1342.
    The proposed consent decree provides for the payment of $275,000 in 
civil penalties in the following amounts: $150,000 by defendant New 
Castle County, and $125,000 by defendant Delaware Department of 
Transportation. In addition, the consent decree requires New Castle 
County to extend a sanitary sewer to a group of New Castle County homes 
with failing septic systems and hooking up a minimum of 40 residential 
properties, up to a possible 85 properties. The consent decree requires 
the Delaware Department of Transportation to complete a stormwater 
retrofit project for a 5.58 mile long section of Interstate Highway 95.
    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 decree. Comments should be addressed to the United 
States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware, 1201 N. Market 
Street, Suite 1100, Box 2046, Wilmington, Delaware 19899-2046, Attn. 
Judith M. Kinney, Assistant United States Attorney.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, District of Delaware, 1201 N. Market Street, 
Wilmington, DE and at the Region III Office of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1650 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19103. A copy of the 
proposed consent decree may 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 refer to the referenced case 
and enclose a check in the amount of $11.50 ($.25 per page reproduction 
cost), payable to the Consent Decree Library.

    Dated: October 23, 2001.
Colm F. Connolly,
United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
[FR Doc. 01-27200 Filed 10-29-01; 8:45 am]
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