[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 248 (Thursday, December 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 66931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31789]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


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

    In accordance with Departmental policy, including 28 CFR 50.7, 
notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States 
of America and State of Louisiana v. City of Baton Rouge and Parish of 
East Baton Rouge, Civil Action No. 01-978-B-M-3, was lodged on November 
13, 2001, with the United States District Court for the Middle District 
of Louisiana.
    The proposed Consent Decree settles an action brought under Clean 
Water Act (``CWA'') Section 301, 33 U.S.C. 1311, for civil penalties 
and injunctive relief for violations related to the publically owned 
treatment works owned and operated by the City/Parish. The Consent 
Decree resolves all claims in the Complaint and provides for injunctive 
relief; a civil penalty of $729,500; a $1.125 million supplemental 
environmental project that will connect certain neighborhoods to the 
sewage treatment system; and payment of $216,000 in stipulated 
penalties which accrued under a prior Consent Decree. The injunctive 
relief will require the City/Parish to implement specified projects 
including a 13-15 year project to improve its sewage collection system, 
a Sanitary Sewer Overflow Response Plan to project the public health by 
responding to overflows, and an extensive preventive maintenance 
program.
    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 Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, 
United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should 
refer to United States and Louisiana v. Baton Rouge. No. 01-978-B-M-3 
(M.D. La.) DOJ Ref. #90-5-1-1-2769/1.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the 
United States Attorney, Middle District of Louisiana, 777 Florida St., 
Baton Rouge, LA 70801 and the office of the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202. A 
copy of the proposed Consent Decree may be obtained by mail from the 
Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611. 
When requesting a copy please refer to United States and Louisiana v. 
Baton Rouge. No. 01-978-B-M-3 (M.D. La.), DOJ Ref. # 90-5-1-1-2769/1 
and enclose a check in the amount of $67.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction costs), payable to the ``Consent Decree Library.''

Thomas A. Mariani, Jr.,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 01-31789 Filed 12-26-01; 8:45 am]
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