[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 150 (Thursday, August 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47461-47462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17833]


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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 and the 
State of Illinois v. Embassy Builders, Inc. and Randall Stevenson, Case 
No. 03 C 6723, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Illinois

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on July 22, 2004. This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint 
filed by the United States against the Defendants pursuant to section 
301(a) of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), to obtain 
injunctive relief from and impose civil penalties against the 
Defendants for filing wetlands on their property without a permit.
    The proposed Consent Decree requires the defendants to pay $106,250 
to a wetland restoration fund as mitigation for the wetlands that were 
filled without a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit. The Consent 
Decree also 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 and the State of Illinois v. Embassy Builders, Inc. and 
Randall Stevenson, Case No. 03 C 6723, including the USAO  
2003V01248.
    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. 04-17833 Filed 8-4-04; 8:45 am]
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