Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water Act

In accordance with 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby given that on

March 23, 1998, a proposed consent decree in United States v. Florida

Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No. 97-711-CIV-T-26E, was

lodged with the United States District Court for the Middle District of

Florida, Tampa Division.

In this action, the United States sought civil penalties under

Sections 301(a) and 309(b) and (d) of the Clean Water Act (the

``Act''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1319(b) and (d), for violations of

effluent limits set forth in the NPDES permits applicable to discharges

from Defendant's Seaboard Utilities wastewater treatment plant located

in Hillsborough County, Florida, and from Defendant's University Shores

wastewater treatment plant located in Orange County, Florida. Under the

proposed consent decree, the Defendant will pay a civil penalty of

$250,000, and implement a Supplemental Environmental Project (``SEP''),

valued at approximately $200,000, and an additional project, valued at

approximately $450,000. The SEP will entail the acquisition and

operation of a real-time monitoring system at the Defendant's Deltona

Lakes Wastewater treatment plant in Volusia County, Florida, and the

additional project will entail the expansion of the current water reuse

project at the Deltona plant to provide reclaimed water to an

elementary school and two residential subdivisions for landscape

irrigation.

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. Florida Water Services Corporation, Civil Action No.

97-711-CIV-T-26E, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-4290.

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

United States Attorney, Middle District of Florida, Robert Timberlake

Bldg., 500 Zack Street, Room 400, Tampa, Florida 33602; the Region IV

Office of the Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta Federal Center,

61 Forsyth St., S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104; and at the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th 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., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy of the

proposed decree and attachments, please refer to the referenced case

and enclose a check in the amount of $10.75 (25 cents per page

reproduction costs) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-9447 Filed 4-9-98; 8:45 am]

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