[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 164 (Wednesday, August 25, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 52310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19484]


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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 modified Consent Decree in United States 
v. Holly Ridge Associates, L.L.C., No. 7:01-CV-36-BO(3) was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina on August 11, 2004.
    This proposed modified Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by 
the United States against Defendants Holly Ridge Associates, L.L.C. and 
John A. Elmore, 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 modified Consent Decree resolves these allegations 
by requiring the Defendants to restore the impacted areas and perform 
mitigation and to pay a civil penalty. The Consent Decree also provides 
for the Defendants to perform a supplemental environmental project.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to 
this proposed modified Consent Decree for thirty (30) days from the 
date of publication of this Notice. Please address comments to Martin 
F. McDermott, United States Dep't of Justice, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, 
Washington, DC 20226-3986 and refer to United States v. Holly Ridge 
Associates, L.L.C., DJ 90-5-1-1-16618.
    The proposed modified Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's 
Office, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina, 310 New Bern Ave., Raleigh, North Carolina 27601. In 
addition, the proposed Consent Decree may be viewed at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html.

Stephen Samuels,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19484 Filed 8-24-04; 8:45 am]
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