[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 153 (Thursday, August 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 44858]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-3868]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Partial Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 
Act

    Notice is hereby given that on July 31, 2007, a proposed Final 
Consent Decree in United States v. City of San Diego, Civil Action No. 
01-CV-0550B (POR), was lodged with the United States District Court for 
the Southern District of California. The United States' action is 
consolidated with San Diego Baykeeper, et al. v. City of San Diego and 
State of California v. City of San Diego.
    In this action the United States seeks penalties and injunctive 
relief to address sanitary sewer overflows and other violations of the 
Clean Water Act and the City of San Diego's National Pollutant 
Discharge Elimination System Permit. The Final Consent Decree includes 
requirements that have already been initiated but not yet completed 
under previous settlements.
    This Final Consent Decree requires the City to continue to take 
action to create programs and maintain and upgrade the sewer 
infrastructure to include, among other things; (1) Comprehensive 
cleanings of the collection system; (2) inspection of manholes; (3) 
completion of specified capital projects; (4) repair, rehabilitation or 
replacement of pipeline; (5) completion of canyon economic and 
environmental analyses; (6) securing of manhole covers; and (7) 
completed CCTV inspections. Further, the Final Consent Decree commits 
the City to implement an additional six year program to improve the 
City's system and reduce spills.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the Final 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and either e-
mailed to [email protected] or mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 
Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer to 
United States v. City of San Diego, D.J. Ref. 90-5-1-1-4364/1.
    The Final Consent Decree may be examined at U.S. EPA Region 9, 75 
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105. During the public 
comment period, the Final Consent Decree, may also be examined on the 
following Department of Justice Web site, to http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html. A copy of the Final 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 $16.50 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) 
payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if by e-mail or fax, forward a check 
in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at the stated address.

Ellen Mahan,
Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-3868 Filed 8-8-07; 8:45 am]
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