[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 70 (Thursday, April 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 17881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07499]


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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. Georgia 
Coastal Land Co., et al., No. 2:16-cv-00060-LGW-RSB, was lodged with 
the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia 
on April 7, 2017.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Georgia Coastal Land Company, Provident Land 
Holdings Company, Provident Construction Company, and William L. 
Nutting, pursuant to Sections 301, 309, and 404 of the Clean Water Act, 
33 U.S.C. 1311(a), 1319(g)(9), and 1344(s), 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 restore impacted areas and 
perform mitigation, and to pay civil and administrative penalties.
    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 Samara Spence, 
Trial Attorney for the 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 v. 
Georgia Coastal Land Co., et al., DJ #90-5-1-1-20782.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, 
Brunswick Division, 801 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520. 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. 2017-07499 Filed 4-12-17; 8:45 am]
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