[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 137 (Thursday, July 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 42426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18049]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of 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. 
Tuckahoe Turf Farms, Inc. and Tuckahoe Land Investment Co., Civ. No. 
03-157-PS (D. Maine), was lodged with the United States District Court 
for the District of Maine on June 26, 2003. This proposed Consent 
Decree concerns a complaint filed by the United States of America 
against Tuckahoe Turf Farms, Inc. and Tuckahoe Land Investment Co., 
pursuant to subsections 309(b) and (d) of the Clean Water Act, 33 
U.S.C. 1319(b), (d), to obtain injunctive relief and impose civil 
penalties against the Defendants for unlawfully discharging dredged or 
fill materials into waters of the United States at two sites located in 
Berwick, York County, Maine.
    The proposed Consent Decree requires the Defendants to pay a civil 
penalty for their unauthorized discharges into waters of the United 
States. The proposed Consent Decree further requires the Defendants to 
develop and complete a wetland restoration project to restore and 
replace ecological functions and values lost as a result of their 
allegedly unlawful discharge activities. In addition, the Defendants 
have agreed to establish and maintain a supplemental environmental 
project (``SEP''), which consists of a conservation easement to 
preserve wetland and upland buffer habitat in and around the vicinity 
of the sites.
    The Department of Justice will receive written comments relating to 
this proposed Consent Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of 
publication of this notice. Please address comments to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Attention: Joshua M. Levin, PO Box 23986, 
Washington, DC 20026-3986. Please refer to the matter of United States 
v. Tuckahoe Turf Farms, Inc., DJ Reference No. 90-5-1-1-16745.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Maine, 156 Federal 
Street, Portland, Maine 04101. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree 
may be viewed on the World Wide Web at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/enrd-home.html.

Scott A. Schachter,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 03-18049 Filed 7-16-03; 8:45 am]
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