[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 182 (Thursday, September 20, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 53795]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-4664]


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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. Richard 
Reid, Lee Reid and Redesign' Landscape Contractors, Inc., Civ. No. 06-
1103, was lodged with the United States District Court for the Northern 
District of Illinois on September 13, 2007. This proposed Consent 
Decree concerns a complaint filed by the United States against Richard 
Reid, Lee Reid and Redesign' Landscape Contractors, Inc., pursuant to 
Section 301(a) of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), to 
obtain injunctive relief from and impose civil penalties against the 
Defendants for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging pollutants 
without a permit into waters of the United States. The proposed Consent 
Decree resolves these allegations by requiring the Defendants to a pay 
a civil penalty. The Defendants have restored the impacted area.
    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 Donald R. 
Lorenzen, United States Attorney's Office, 219 South Dearborn Street, 
5th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60604, and refer to United States v. 
Richard Reid, Lee Reid and Redesign' Landscape Contractors, Inc., Civ. 
No. 06-1103.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 
Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 
Illinois 60604. In addition, the proposed Consent Decree may be viewed 
at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.

Scott Schachter,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 07-4664 Filed 9-19-07; 8:45 am]
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