Notice of Lodging of Stipulation and Settlement Under the Clean Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Stipulation and Settlement Under the Clean

Water Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR Sec. 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Stipulation and Settlement in U.S. v.

Caribe Tuna, Inc., Civ. No. 91-1926 (D.P.R.), was lodged on March 13,

1996 with the United States District Court for the District of Puerto

Rico. The complaint in this action seeks injunctive relief and civil

penalties under Section 301 of the Clean Water Act (``the Act''), 33

U.S.C. 1311, in connection with Caribe Tuna, Inc.'s (``CTI'') operation

of a tuna processing plant located in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

The proposed Stipulation and Settlement provides for CTI to pay a

civil penalty to the United States of $300,000.

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

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

proposed Stipulation and Settlement. Comments should be addressed to

the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural

Resources Division, Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin

Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to U.S. v.

Caribe Tuna, Inc., DOJ Ref. No. 90-5-1-3638.

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

United States Attorney, Federal Office Building, Room 452, Carlos E.

Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918; the Region II Office of

the Environmental Protection Agency, Region II Records Center, 290

Broadway, New York, New York 10007-1866; and at the Consent Decree

Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., Fourth Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,

(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be obtained

in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G. Street,

Fourth Floor, N.W. Washington D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please

refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $2.00

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

Library.

Joel Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 96-6935 Filed 3-21-96; 8:45 am]

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