[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 21017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9741]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water 
Act

    Notice is hereby given that on March 30, 2000, a proposed Consent 
Decree in United States v. Morton International, Inc., Case No. 1:00-
CV-220 was lodged in the United States District Court for the Western 
District of Michigan. The Complaint filed by the United States pursuant 
to sections 301 and 309 of the Clean Water Act (``Act''), 33 U.S.C. 
1311 and 1319 alleges that during the period November, 1994 through 
January 1998, at its magnesium-based chemical manufacturing facility in 
Manistee, Michigan, Morton discharged into Manistee Lake effluent which 
failed to comply with the effluent limits of its National Pollutant 
Discharge Elimination System Permit, in violation of its Permit and the 
Act. Under the proposed Consent Decree Morton would pay a civil penalty 
of $75,500 and perform Supplemental Environmental Projects in 
settlement of the civil violations alleged in the Complaint.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments concerning the proposed 
Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of 
Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044-
7611, and should refer to United States v. Morton International, Inc., 
D.J. Ref. No. 90-5-1-1-06486.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 330 Ionia Avenue, NW, 
5th Floor, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 and the United States Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 
60604. A copy of the Consent Decree may also be obtained by regular 
mail addressed to the Department of Justice Consent Decree Library, 
P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044. For a copy 
of the Consent Decree, please enclose a check in the amount of $8.00 
(25 cents per page reproduction costs) payable to Consent Decree 
Library.

Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 00-9741 Filed 4-18-00; 8:45 am]
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