[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 180 (Monday, September 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 46972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20088]


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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. LaPant, 
Civil Action Number 2:16-cv-01498-KJM-DB, was lodged with the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of California on 
September 11, 2018.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States on June 30, 2016, against Goose Pond Ag, Inc. and 
Farmland Management Services, 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 against these Defendants by requiring them to perform 
mitigation and other injunctive relief 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, however we encourage the submission of all 
comments by October 10, 2018. 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. LaPant, 
DJ #90-5-1-1-20800.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office 
at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
California, Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse, 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. 2018-20088 Filed 9-14-18; 8:45 am]
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