Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water

Act

Notice is hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United

States v. Alexandria Sanitation Authority, et el., Civil Action No. 98-

1478A, was lodged on October 9, 1998 with the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The United States filed

this action pursuant to the Clean Water Act to obtain an injunction

requiring the Alexandria Sanitation Authority to install and operate

equipment at the Alexandria Sanitation Authority's plant to allow that

plant to comply with the discharge limits and other requirements set

forth in a permit issued to the Authority. The Consent Decree requires

the Authority to install treatment equipment and achieve compliance

with the discharge limits in its Permit. In addition, the Authority is

required to install equipment to remove the nitrogen from its

discharges.

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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States v. Alexandria Sanitation Authority, et al., DO Ref. #90-

5-1-1-4479.

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

United States Attorney, 2100 Jamieson Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia

22314; the Region III Office of the Environmental Protection Agency,

1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103; and at the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 3rd 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,

N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy please

refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $4.75

(25 cents per page reproduction costs) for each decree, payable to the

Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environmental and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-28733 Filed 10-26-98; 8:45 am]

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