Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 209 / Wednesday, October 29, 1997 / Notices 56191

a period of thirty (30) days from the date

of this publication.

The proposed settlement agreement

and all documents relied upon by EPA

in making decisions for this site are

included in the Administrative Record

which is located in the Information

Repository at: The Yakima Public

Library, 102 North Third Street, Yakima,

Washington.

If you have any questions about the

proposed settlement, please contact

Sean Sheldrake at (206) 553–1220 or

call EPA’s toll free number 800–424–

4372. People with impaired hearing or

speech may contact EPA’s

telecommunications device for the

hearing impaired (TDD) at (206) 553–

1698. To ensure effective

communication with everyone,

additional services can be made

available to persons with disabilities by

contacting one of the numbers listed

above.

Authority: The Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and

Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C.

9601–9675.

Chuck Clarke,

Regional Administrator.

[FR Doc. 97–28648 Filed 10–28–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5914–5]

Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed

Administrative Penalty Assessment

and Opportunity To Comment

Regarding American Commercial

Marine Service Company,

Jeffersonville, Indiana

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed

administrative penalty assessment and

opportunity to comment regarding

American Commercial Marine Service

Company, Jeffersonville, Indiana.

SUMMARY: The EPA is providing notice

of a proposed administrative penalty

assessment for alleged violations of the

Clean Water Act (Act). The EPA is also

providing notice of opportunity to

comment on the proposed assessment.

Under 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is

authorized to issue orders assessing

civil penalties for various violations of

the Act. The EPA may issue such orders

after filing a Complaint commencing

either a Class I or Class II penalty

proceeding. The EPA provides the

public notice of the proposed

assessment pursuant to 33 U.S.C.

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 or Suspension of Permits, 40

CFR part 22. The procedures by 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 (30)

days after issuance of this public

document.

On September 30, 1997, EPA

commenced the following Class II

proceeding for the assessment of

penalties by filing with Venessa Cobbs,

Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region VII, 726 Minnesota Avenue,

Kansas City, Kansas 66101, (913) 551–

7630, the following two Complaints: In

the Matter of American Commercial

Marine Service Company, Jeffersonville,

Indiana, EPA Docket Nos. VII–97–W–

0054 and VII–97–W–0055.

The Complaints proposed penalties of

Zero Dollars ($0) for failure to obtain a

National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination System (NPDES) permit for

the discharge of pollutants into

navigable water of the United States in

violation of section 301(a) of the Clean

Water Act.

Under the EPA’s final policy

statement on Incentives for SelfPolicing: Discovery, Disclosure,

Correction and Prevention of Violations

(60 FR 66706 et seq., December 22,

1995). companies who voluntarily selfdisclose violations of statutes may be

eligible for a reduction of penalties.

American Commercial Marine Service

Company has voluntary self-disclosed

violations in satisfaction of the terms of

the EPA’s final policy and penalties

have been reduced to Zero ($0).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Persons wishing to receive a copy of

EPA’s Consolidated Rules, review the

Complaints, or other documents filed in

this proceeding, Comment upon the

proposed penalty assessment, or

otherwise participate in the proceeding

should contact Venessa Cobbs, Regional

Hearing Clerk, at (913) 551–7630.

The administrative record for the

proceeding is located in the EPA

Regional Office at the address stated

above, and the file will be open for

public inspection during normal

business hours. All information

submitted by American Commercial

Marine Service Company, Jeffersonville,

Indiana, 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 penalties in these

proceedings prior to thirty (30) days

from the date of this document.

Dated: October 17, 1997.

William Rice,

Acting Regional Administrator.

[FR Doc. 97–28550 Filed 10–28–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

The companies listed in this notice

have applied to the Board for approval,

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part

225), and all other applicable statutes

and regulations to become a bank

holding company and/or to acquire the

assets or the ownership of, control of, or

the power to vote shares of a bank or

bank holding company and all of the

banks and nonbanking companies

owned by the bank holding company,

including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well

as other related filings required by the

Board, are available for immediate

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank

indicated. The application also will be

available for inspection at the offices of

the Board of Governors. Interested

persons may express their views in

writing on the standards enumerated in

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the

proposal also involves the acquisition of

a nonbanking company, the review also

includes whether the acquisition of the

nonbanking company complies with the

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act.

Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking

activities will be conducted throughout

the United States.

Unless otherwise noted, comments

regarding each of these applications

must be received at the Reserve Bank

indicated or the offices of the Board of

Governors not later than November 21,

1997.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

(Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 104

Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia

30303-2713:

1. Premier Bancshares, Inc., Atlanta,

Georgia; to merge with Citizens

Gwinnett Bankshares, Inc., Duluth,

Georgia, and thereby indirectly acquire

Citizens Bank of Gwinnett, Duluth,

Georgia.