[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 160 (Monday, August 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39618-39619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17634]


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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. Duarte 
Nursery, Inc. and John Duarte, Civil Action Number 2:13-cv-02095-KJM-
DB, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of California, Sacramento District, on August 15, 2017.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns an answer and counterclaim 
filed by the United States on May 7, 2014, against Duarte Nursery, Inc. 
and

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John Duarte, pursuant to Sections 301(a) and 309(d) of the Clean Water 
Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1319(d), to obtain injunctive relief from 
and impose civil penalties against the Counterclaim-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 Counterclaim-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 Andrew Doyle, 
Senior 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 v. Duarte 
Nursery, Inc. and John Duarte, DJ # 90-5-1-4-19984.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 
Sacramento District, 501 I Street, Room 4-200, Sacramento, CA 95814. 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. 2017-17634 Filed 8-18-17; 8:45 am]
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