[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 7 (Monday, January 12, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 1247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-302]


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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. 
Rapanos, No. 94-CV-70788-DT (E.D. Mich.), was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on December 
29, 2008.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against John A. Rapanos, Judith Ann Nelkie Rapanos, 
Prodo, Inc., Rolling Meadows Hunt Club, and Pine River Bluff Estates, 
Inc., pursuant to 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 Consent Decree resolves these 
allegations by requiring the Defendants to perform 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 Daniel R. 
Dertke, Environment & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 23986, Washington, DC 20026-3986, and refer to United 
States v. Rapanos, DJ  90-5-1-1-4274.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse, 231 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, 
Michigan 48226. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree may be viewed 
at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.

Scott A. Schachter,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & 
Natural Resources Division.
 [FR Doc. E9-302 Filed 1-9-09; 8:45 am]
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