[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 183 (Thursday, September 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 55627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18885]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Modification of Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 
Act

    Under 28 CFR 50.7, the Environment and Natural Resources Division 
of the Department of Justice proposes to modify a Consent Decree in 
United States and State of Louisiana v. Sewerage District No. 1 of 
Iberia Parish, Civil Action No. 04-1352. The Consent Decree was entered 
by the United States District Court for the Western District of 
Louisiana on December 20, 2004.
    In this action the United States, and its co-plaintiff the State of 
Louisiana, sought injunctive relief and a civil penalty to address 
sanitary sewer overflows and other violations of the Clean Water Act 
and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (``NPDES'') 
permit issued to Sewerage District No. 1 of Iberia Parish (``Sewerage 
District'') for the Tete Bayou publicly owned treatment works. Under 
the Consent Decree, the Sewerage District agreed, inter alia, to 
construct an equalization basin at the Tete Bayou Plant to relieve wet 
weather plant hydraulic overload conditions; and to comprehensively 
study and rehabilitate the Sewerage District's collection system to 
eliminate sanitary sewer overflows from the system. Additionally, the 
Sewerage District paid the United States and LDEQ a civil penalty of 
$51,400. The Sewerage District has asked for a modification of 
Paragraph 17.A of the Consent Decree to allow an extension of the end 
date for the completion of collection system rehabilitation projects 
from December 30, 2008, to December 30, 2009. The United States and the 
State of Louisiana believe that the proposed modification is 
appropriate here.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
modification of the Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the 
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 
20044-7611, and should refer to United States v. Sewerage District No. 
1 of Liberia Parish, D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-07473.
    The proposed modification to the Consent Decree may be examined 
during the public comment period on the following Department of Justice 
Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/open.html. A copy of the 
modification of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by mail from 
the Consent Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, 
Washington, DC 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request to Tonia 
Fleetwood (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7a0e1514131b541c161f1f0e0d15151e3a0f091e1510541d150c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="add9c2c3c4cc83cbc1c8c8d9dac2c2c9edd8dec9c2c783cac2db">[email protected]</span></a>), fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone 
confirmation number (202) 514-1537. In requesting a copy from the 
Consent Decree Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $.25 
(25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury.

Thomas A. Mariani, Jr.,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment 
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 05-18885 Filed 9-21-05; 8:45 am]
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