[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50643-50644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19817]


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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

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given that a proposed Consent Decree in Sierra Club, et al. v. MasTec 
North America, Inc., et al., No. 03-1697-HO (D. Or.), consolidated with 
United States v. MasTec, Inc., et al., No. 06-6071-HO (D. Or.), was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Oregon 
on August 19, 2008.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns complaints filed by the 
United States against MasTec, Inc. and MasTec North America, Inc. 
pursuant to section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), 
to obtain, among other things, injunctive relief from and to impose 
civil penalties against MasTec, Inc. and MasTec North America, Inc. for 
violating the Clean Water Act by discharging pollutants in violation of 
a permit and without a permit into waters of the United States. The 
proposed Consent Decree resolves certain of the allegations against 
MasTec, Inc. and MasTec North America, Inc. by requiring them to 
provide for environmental mitigation 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 Kent E. Hanson, 
Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, Washington, DC 20026-
3986, and refer to United States v. MasTec, Inc., DJ  90-5-1-
1-17191.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Wayne L. Morse 
U.S. Courthouse, 405 East Eighth Avenue, Room 2100, Eugene, OR 97401. 
In addition, the proposed Consent Decree may be viewed at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html .

Russell Young,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E8-19817 Filed 8-26-08; 8:45 am]
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