# Notice of Proposed Assessment of Clean Water Act Class II Administrative Penalty to Superior Spring Company and Opportunity To Comment

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** May 8, 1996
- **Citation:** 61 FR 20819

## Text

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5500-1]

Notice of Proposed Assessment of Clean Water Act Class II
Administrative Penalty to Superior Spring Company and Opportunity To
Comment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed administrative penalty assessment and
opportunity to comment.

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SUMMARY: EPA is providing notice of proposed administrative penalty
assessment for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. EPA is also
providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment.
Under 33 U.S.C. Section 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders
assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may
issue these orders after the commencement of either a Class I or Class
II penalty proceeding. EPA provides public notice of the proposed
assessments pursuant to 33 U.S.C. Section 1319(g)(4)(a).
Class II proceedings are conducted under EPA's Consolidated Rules
of Practice Governing the Administrative Assessment of Civil Penalties
and the Revocation and Suspension of Permits, 40 CFR Part 22. The
procedures through which the public may submit written comment on a
proposed Class II order or participate in a Class II proceeding, and
the Procedures by which a Respondent may request a hearing, are set
forth in the Consolidated Rules. The deadline for submitting public
comment on a proposed Class II order is thirty days after publication
of this notice.
On the date identified below, EPA commenced the following Class II
proceeding for the assessment of penalties:

In the Matter of Superior Spring Company, formerly located at
2447 Merced Avenue, South El Monte, California 91733, but now
located at 1260 South Talt Avenue, Anaheim, California 92806; EPA
Docket No. CWA-IX-FY96-02; filed on April 22, 1996, with Mr. Steven
Armsey, Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S. EPA, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, California 94105, (415) 744-1389; proposed
penalty of $60,000 for failure to submit self-monitoring reports
during the final three and half years of operation in South El Monte
and for past violations of local sewer discharge limits.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons wishing to receive a copy of
EPA's Consolidated Rules, review of the complaint or other documents
filed in this proceeding, comment upon a proposed assessment, or
otherwise participate in the proceeding should contact the Regional
Hearing Clerk identified above. The administrative record for this
proceeding is located in the EPA Regional Office identified above, and
the file will be open for public inspection during normal business
hours. All information submitted by the respondent is available as part
of the administrative record, subject to provisions of law restricting
public disclosure of confidential information. In order to provide
opportunity for public comment, EPA will issue no final order assessing
a penalty in these proceedings prior to thirty (30) days after the date
of publication of this notice.

Dated: April 22, 1996.
Karen Schwinn,
Acting Director, Water Management Division.
[FR Doc. 96-11488 Filed 5-7-96; 8:45 am]
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