[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 59241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-27530]


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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. Corbett 
Package Co., et al., Civil No. 7:09 cv 00181, was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina 
on November 10, 2009.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Defendants Corbett Package Company, Corbett 
Farming Company (d/b/a Corbett Timber Company), and a number of 
individuals with ownership interests in the Site, pursuant to Sections 
301, 402, and 404 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1342, and 
1344 to obtain injunctive relief and impose civil penalties against the 
Defendants for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging fill 
material into waters of the United States. The proposed Consent Decree 
resolves these allegations by requiring the Defendants to pay a civil 
penalty and place a restrictive covenant on a 100-acre wetland portion 
of the Site that would be managed in perpetuity under a negotiated 
Timber Management Plan. Defendants would also covenant not to take any 
action on the Site that would alter the existing hydrologic 
characteristics of its wetlands or that would convert any existing 
wetlands on the Site to non-wetlands, except in accordance with a 
permit issued by the Corps under CWA section 404. 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 Martin F. McDermott, United States 
Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, 
Environmental Defense Section, P.O. Box 23986, Washington DC 20026-3986 
and refer to United States v. Corbett Package Co., et al., Civil No. 
7:09 cv 00181, DJ 90-5-1-1-16625.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
574 Terry Sandford Federal Building, 310 New Bern Avenue, Raleigh, 
North Carolina 27601-1418. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree may 
be viewed at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.

Maureen M. Katz,
Assistant Section Chief, Environment & Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. E9-27530 Filed 11-16-09; 8:45 am]
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