[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 166 (Wednesday, August 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 51595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-21920]


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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. Stephen 
Jacobs and Doug Steve, case No. 02 C 8998, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on August 
19, 2003. This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by 
the United States against Stephen Jacobs and Doug Steve, pursuant to 
section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 
section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899, 33 
U.S.C. 403 (``RHA''), to obtain injunctive relief from and impose civil 
penalties against the Defendants for filling wetlands on their property 
without a permit and for installing bank stabilization and boat docks 
in the Fox River without a permit.
    The proposed Consent Decree prohibits mowing, cutting, clearing, 
cultivating, dredging, excavating, farming, filling, dewatering, 
draining or otherwise disturbing in any manner whatsoever the wetland 
impact area, and requires removal of all fill material from the wetland 
impact area, removal of a portion of the bank stabilization, 
restoration of the filled wetland areas, and requires payment of a 
civil penalty.
    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 Kurt Lindland, 
Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, 5th 
Floor, 219 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604 and refer to 
United States v. Stephen Jacobs and Doug Steve, including the USAO 
2002V01900.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 219 
S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. In addition, the proposed 
Consent Decree may be viewed on the World Wide Web at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html.

Kurt N. Lindland,
Assistant United States Attorney.
[FR Doc. 03-21920 Filed 8-26-03; 8:45 am]
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