[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 112 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36715-36716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14618]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Proposed Consent Decree

    In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed consent decree in United States v. 
Johnson, Civil Action No. 00CV11014 (D. Mass.), was lodged with the 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on May 
23, 2000. This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by 
the United States against William Johnson and Virginia Riley, pursuant 
to section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), and 
imposes civil penalties against the Defendants for discharging dredged 
or fill material and/or controlling and directing the discharge of 
dredged or fill material into waters of the United States at portions 
of an approximately 107 acre parcel of land located at 136 Holly Lane 
in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where a cranberry farm now exists.
    The proposed Consent Decree prohibits the discharge of pollutants 
into the waters of the United States and requires the payment of civil 
penalties in the amount of $500.00 to be paid by Defendant Virginia A. 
Riley and

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$1000.00 to be paid by Defendant William Johnson.
    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 Jon M. 
Lipshultz, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental 
Defense Section, U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 23986, 
Washington, D.C. 20026-3986 and refer to United States v. Johnson, DJ # 
90-5-1-1-05400/1.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2300 
United States Courthouse, One Courthouse Way, Boston, MA 02210-3002.

Letitia J. Grishaw,
Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural Resources 
Division.
[FR Doc. 00-14618 Filed 6-8-00; 8:45 am]
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