[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 6646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01133]



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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, et al. v. 
Greer Industries, Inc., et al., Case No. 1:17-cv-00004-IMK, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Northern District of West 
Virginia on January 9, 2017.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States and the State of West Virginia against Greer Industries, 
Inc., Deckers Creek Limestone Company, and Pikewood, Inc., pursuant to 
33 U.S.C. Sections 1319(b) and (d) of the Clean Water Act and W. Va. 
Code Section 22-11-22, 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 waters of the State of West Virginia. The proposed 
Consent Decree resolves these allegations by requiring the Defendants 
to restore the impacted areas and/or 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 Austin Saylor, 
Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section, Post Office 
Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044, and refer to United States, et al. v. 
Greer Industries, Inc., et al., DJ # 90-5-1-1-19059.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Northern District of West 
Virginia, 1125 Chapline Street, Suite 1000, Wheeling, West Virginia 
26003. 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. 2017-01133 Filed 1-18-17; 8:45 am]
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