[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 135 (Thursday, July 15, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 42455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16000]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on June 25, 2004, a 
proposed Consent Decree in United States and State of Louisiana v. 
Sewerage District No. 1 of Iberia Parish, Civil Action No. 04-1352 was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Western District 
of Louisiana.
    In this action the United States, and its co-plaintiff the State of 
Louisiana, sought injunctive relief and a civil penalty to address 
sanitary sewer overflows and other violations of the Clean Water Act 
and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (``NPDES'') 
permit issued jointly to the Sewerage District No. 1 and the City of 
New Iberia for the Tete Bayou publicly owned treatment works 
(``POTW''). Under the proposed Consent Decree, the Sewerage District 
No. 1 has agreed to perform a comprehensive characterization, 
evaluation, and rehabilitation of the Sewerage District's collection 
system, and to construct and equalization basin to eliminate sanitary 
sewer overflows at the Tete Bayou POTW. The Sewerage District also has 
agreed to pay a civil penalty of $51,400, one half of which will be 
paid to the United States and half of which will be paid to the State.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Consent 
Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. Sewerage District No. 1 of Iberia Parish, D.J. Ref. 
No. 90-5-1-1-07473.
    The Consent Decree may be examined during the public comment period 
on the following Department of Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by 
mail from the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of 
Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request 
to Tonia Fleetwood ([email protected]), fax no. (202) 514-0097, 
phone confirmation number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy from the 
Consent Decree Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $16.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Thomas A. Mariani, Jr.,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 04-16000 Filed 7-14-04; 8:45 am]
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