[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 59 (Friday, March 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 15900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6829]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent Decree

    In accordance with the Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. 
Sandstone Mining, L.L.C., et al. (E.D.N.C.), No. 7:04-CV-58F was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina on March 16, 2004.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a compliant filed by the 
United States against Defendants Sandstone Mining, L.L.C., Sandstone 
Mining No. 2, L.L.C., Socastee Harvest, L.L.C., Robert L. Wiseman, and 
Stephen Wiseman, pursuant to section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act, 33 
U.S.C. 1311(a), to obtain injunctive relief from and impose civil 
penalties against the Defendants for violating the Clean Water Act by 
discharging pollutants without a permit into waters of the United 
States. The proposed Consent Decree resolves these allegations by 
requiring the Defendants to restore the impacted areas and to pay 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 Martin F. 
McDermott, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, 
Washington, DC 20026-3986 and refer to United States v. Sandstone 
Mining, L.L.C., et al., DJ 90-5-1-1-05972.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina, Terry Sandford Federal Building and Courthouse, 301 New Bern 
Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601. In addition, the proposed 
Consent Decree may be viewed by http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html.

Stephen Samuels,
Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural Resources 
Division.
[FR Doc. 04-6829 Filed 3-25-04; 8:45 am]
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