[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12030-12031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04079]


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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. George 
Gradel Co., Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 3:20-cv-00373, was lodged 
with the United States District Court for the Northern District of 
Ohio, Western Division, on February 19, 2020.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against George Gradel Co., Inc., and First Energy Nuclear 
Operating Co., pursuant to Sections 301(a), 309(b), and 309(d) of the 
Clean Water Act, 33

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U.S.C. 1311(a), 1319(b), and 1319(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 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 Phillip R. 
Dupr[eacute], 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. George 
Gradel Co., Inc., et al., DJ No. 90-5-1-1-20652.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, 1716 
Spielbusch Avenue, Toledo, OH 43604. In addition, the proposed Consent 
Decree may be examined electronically at http://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.

Cherie Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-04079 Filed 2-27-20; 8:45 am]
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