[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 54605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-19479]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent Decree

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 U.S.C. 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. Varca 
Ventures, Inc. and Wildcat Mining Corporation, Civil Action No. 1:16-
cv-02008-WYD, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Colorado on August 8, 2016.
    The proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Varca Ventures, Inc. and Wildcat Mining 
Corporation, pursuant to Sections 301, 309(b), and 404 of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1319(b), and 1344, 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 and for violation of a 
compliance order issued by the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency. The proposed Consent Decree resolves these allegations by 
requiring the Defendants to restore the impacted areas 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 Pinkston, 
Senior Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, 999 18th 
Street, South Terrace--Suite 370, Denver, CO 80202, and refer to United 
States v. Varca Ventures, Inc. and Wildcat Mining Corporation, DJ #90-
5-1-1-20319.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Colorado, 901 19th 
Street, Denver, CO 80294. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree may 
be examined electronically at http://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.

Cherie L. Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-19479 Filed 8-15-16; 8:45 am]
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