[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 217 (Monday, November 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 52332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24461]


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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. Black 
Tea Oil, LLC, et al., Case No. 2:17-cv-02030, was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the District of Kansas on November 6, 
2017.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Black Tea Oil, LLC and Christopher C. Leiker, 
pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1319(b) and (d), 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 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 Phillip R. 
Dupr[eacute], 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 v. Black Tea Oil, LLC, et al., DJ #90-5-1-1-20653.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Kansas, 500 State 
Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66101. 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. 2017-24461 Filed 11-9-17; 8:45 am]
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