[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 9, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 68087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22361]


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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. 
California Olive Ranch, (E.D. Cal.) 2:05-cv-02205-LKK-PAN, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
California on November 2, 2005.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against California Olive Ranch pursuant to section 309(b) 
and (d) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and (d), to obtain 
injunctive relief from and impose civil penalties against the Defendant 
for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging pollutants without a 
permit into the waters of the United States. The proposed Consent 
Decree resolves these allegations by requiring Defendant to mitigate 
the environmental impacts by purchasing mitigation credits at the Dove 
Ridge Conservation Bank 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 Pamela S. 
Tonglao, Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, P.O. Box 23986, Washington, 
DC 20026-3986 and refer to United States v. California Olive Ranch, 
(E.D. Cal.), 2:05-cv-02205-LKK-PAN, DJ 90-5-1-1-17457.
    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. 05-22361 Filed 11-8-05; 8:45 am]
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