[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 32 (Thursday, February 15, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 6880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03120]



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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. Lodge/
Abbott Investments Associates LLC, et al., Civil Action Number 2:18-cv-
87-FtM-38MRM, was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, on February 9, 2018.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Lodge/Abbott Investments Associates LLC and 
Lodge/Abbott Associates LLC, pursuant to Sections 301 and 404 of the 
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311 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. The proposed Consent Decree resolves these 
allegations by requiring the Defendants to perform mitigation and to 
pay a civil penalty. The proposed Consent Decree also subjects 
Defendants to an injunction.
    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. Lodge/
Abbott Investments Associates LLC, et al., DJ # 90-5-1-1-21238.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Fort 
Myers Division, 2110 First Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901, or in any of 
its other Divisions in Tampa, Orlando, Ocala, and Jacksonville, FL. 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. 2018-03120 Filed 2-14-18; 8:45 am]
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