Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, set out in 28 CFR 50.7,

notice is hereby given that on March 17, 1994, a proposed consent

decree in full settlement of United States, et al. v. County Sanitation

Districts of Los Angeles County, Civil Action No. CV 92-0061-RG (JRx),

was lodged with the United States District Court for the Central

District of California. In the Complaint in that action, the United

States seeks civil penalties and injunctive relief for unpermitted

discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States, and for

discharges of pollutants in violation of the conditions of CSDLAC's

permit issued under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

(``NPDES'') and the Clean Water Act. The proposed settlement resolves

the liability of CSDLAC for all of the violations alleged in the

complaint.

Under the terms of the settlement, CSDLAC will comply with a

schedule calling for full implementation of secondary treatment of all

of the wastewater treated at CSDLAC's Joint Wastewater Treatment Plant,

with compliance to be achieved by December 2002, subject to a limited

extension provision if CSDLAC can demonstrate that compliance by that

date would result in significant additional environmental harm from

resuspension of contaminated sediments. CSDLAC will also pay a civil

penalty of $500,000, with $200,000 of that amount to be paid to the

State of California, which is a co-plaintiff in this suit. CSDLAC is

also required to undertake projects providing for increased use of

reclaimed water and the collection of household hazardous waste.

The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30)

days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the

proposed Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant

Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. Comments

should refer to United States v. County Sanitation Districts of Los

Angeles County, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-3824.

The consent decree may be examined at the Office of the United

States Attorney, Central District of California, 300 North Los Angeles

Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; at the Region IX Office of the

Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,

California 94105; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street,

NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A copy of the

consent decree may be obtained in person or by mail from the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005.

In requesting a copy, please tender a check in the amount of $8.00

(25 cents per page reproduction charge) payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

John C. Cruden,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 94-7687 Filed 3-30-94; 8:45 am]

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