Notice of Lodging Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v.

Interstate General Company, et al., Civ. No. AW-96-1112 (D. Md., So.

Div.), was lodged with the United States District Court for the

District of Maryland, Southern Division, on August 26, 1999. This

Consent Decree has been entered into by the Plaintiff United States and

Defendants Interstate General Company, L.P., and St. Charles

Associates, L.P., pursuant to Section 309 (b) and (d) of the Clean

Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319 (b) & (d), providing for injunctive relief

and imposing civil penalties upon the Defendants for discharge of

dredged or fill material in violation of section 301(a) of the Clean

Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), at four sites in St. Charles, a planned

community near Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland.

The Consent Decree prohibits additional illegal discharges by the

Defendants, and requires Defendants to, among other things: (1) Pay a

$360,000 civil penalty to the United States; (2) escrow $40,000 to be

used for additional wetland plantings in open spaces on one of the

parcels located in Dorchester Neighborhood; (3) carry out remediation

plans at two parcels, Parcel L and Town Center South, that will result

in the restitution of fourteen (14) acres of wetlands and the creation

of new wetlands and wetland buffers on fifty-seven (57) acres; and (4)

place deed restrictions or conservation easements on all remediation

sites identified in the consent decree.

The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to

this proposed Consent Decree for thirty (30) days from the date of

publication of this notice. Please address comments to Lynne A.

Battaglia, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, United

States Department of Justice, Attention: W. Warren Hamel, AUSA, 101 W.

Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21012, and refer to United States

v. Interstate General Company, Civ. No. AW-96-1112 and USAO No. 96-

00096.

The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office,

United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern

Division, 6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770.

W. Warren Hamel,

Chief, Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Section, U.S. Attorney's

Office, District of Maryland.

[FR Doc. 99-26826 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]

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