[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 40 (Thursday, February 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9320-9321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4697]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Partial Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 
Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on February 15, 
2002, a proposed Partial Consent Decree (``decree'') in United States 
and State of Ohio v. Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton County 
and the City of Cincinnati, Civil Action Nos. C-1-02-107 and C-1-02-
108, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Southern 
District of Ohio.
    In this action the United States sought injunctive relief from 
defendants for unauthorized discharges from their sanitary sewer 
system, located in Hamilton County, Ohio. These unauthorized discharges 
are also known as sanitary sewer overflows, or SSOs, and are violations 
of the Clean Water Act. The decree requires the defendants

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to implement an interim and then permanent remedy for SSO 700 and to 
implement certain other specified capital improvement projects, which 
are expected to eliminate other ``highly active'' SSOs. In addition, 
defendants are required to perform comprehensive modeling and analysis 
of their sanitary sewer system and to propose a comprehensive plan to 
address the rest of their SSOs and to provide adequate future system 
capacity. The decree specifically reserves claims of the United States 
for penalties related to these unauthorized discharges, as well as 
claims for penalties and injunctive relief concerning other sewer 
system violations, including among others, violations concerning 
defendants' wastewater treatment plants and combined sewer system.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the decree. 
Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, PO Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States and State of Ohio v. Board of County Commissioners of 
Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati, D.J. Ref. 90-5-1-6-341A.
    The decree may be examined at the Office of the United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 221 E. 4th Street, Atrium 
II, Suite 400, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, and at U.S. EPA Region V, 77 
West Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604-3590. A copy of the decree may 
also be obtained by mail from the Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611. In requesting a 
copy of the decree, including its exhibits, please enclose a check in 
the amount of $209.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to 
the Consent Decree Library. In requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits, 
please enclose a check in the amount of $18.75 (25 cents per page 
reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

William D. Brighton,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 02-4697 Filed 2-27-02; 8:45 am]
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