[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 63257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30154]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent Decree

    In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. Gallo 
Glass Company, Civil Action No. C 01 3350 JL, (N.D. Cal.), was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
California on November 8, 2001. This proposed Consent Decree concerns a 
complaint filed by the United States against Gallo Glass Company and 
Jack Neal and Son, Inc., pursuant to sections 301(a) and 404 of the 
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1344 and imposes civil penalties 
against the Defendants for the excavation and deep ripping of 260 acres 
of wetlands and depositing fill material into approximately 12.5 acres 
of drainage, swales, and creeks in wetlands adjacent to Washoe Creek, a 
tributary to the Laguna de Santa Rosa Creek and Russian River, located 
on Stoney Point, near Cotati, Sonoma County, California. Defendants 
also cleared vegetation, woody debris, and placed large boulders/rip-
rap on approximately 1000 linear feet of Porter Creek in Twin Valley, 
near Windsor, in Sonoma County.
    The proposed Consent Decree requires the payment of civil penalties 
in the amount of $95,000 and prohibits the discharge of pollutants into 
the waters of the United States. In addition to the civil penalty, the 
Consent Decree requires Defendants, at their own expense and subject to 
approval by the Corps, to provide compensatory mitigation for the 
filled drainage, swales and creeks in accordance with the approved 
Mitigation Plan.
    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 Charles 
O'Connor, United States Attorney's Office, 450 Golden Gate Ave., 16th 
Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102 and refer to United States v. Gallo 
Glass Co.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 
450 Golden Gate Ave., 16th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Stephen Samuels,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-30154 Filed 12-4-01; 8:45 am]
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