[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 148 (Thursday, August 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 49953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19388]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree between the 
State of California and the United States Section of the International 
Boundary and Water Commission (``USIBWC'') was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Southern District of California on July 
12, 2002. The proposed Consent Decree concerns alleged violations of 
section 402 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1342, at the South Bay 
International Wastewater Treatment Plant, located at 2415 Dairy Mart 
Road, San Diego County, San Diego, California. The proposed Consent 
Decree would require the USIBWC to provide or contract for secondary 
treatment services for the Plant or to otherwise cease violations of 
certain effluent standards and limitations applicable to the Plant's 
discharges.
    The United States Department of Justice will receive written 
comments relating to the proposed Consent Decree for a period of thirty 
(30) days from the date of publication of this notice. Comments should 
be addressed to S. Randall Humm, Trial Attorney, United States 
Department of Justice, Environmental Defense Section, PO Box 23986, 
Washington, DC 20026-3986, with copies provided to Mario Lewis, 
International Boundary and Water Commission, Office of the Staff 
Counsel, 4171 No. Mesa Street; Suite C-310, El Paso, TX 79902; and 
Carol A. Squire, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, State 
of California, 110 West A Street, Suite 1100, PO Box 85266, San Diego, 
92186-5266, and should reference California v. Ramirez, No. 01-CV-0270-
BTM-JFS (S.D. Cal.); consolidated with Surfrider Foundation v. Ramirez, 
No. 99-CV-2441-BTM-JFS (S.D. Cal.).
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Southern District of California, 
4290 Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building, 880 Front Street, San Diego, 
California.

Stephen Samuels,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 02-19388 Filed 7-31-02; 8:45 am]
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