[Federal Register: October 14, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 198)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 
Notice of Lodging Consent Decree Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

    In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. 
Interstate General Company, et al., Civ. No. AW-96-1112 (D. Md., So. 
Div.), was lodged with the United States District Court for the 
District of Maryland, Southern Division, on August 26, 1999. This 
Consent Decree has been entered into by the Plaintiff United States and 
Defendants Interstate General Company, L.P., and St. Charles 
Associates, L.P., pursuant to Section 309 (b) and (d) of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319 (b) & (d), providing for injunctive relief 
and imposing civil penalties upon the Defendants for discharge of 
dredged or fill material in violation of section 301(a) of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), at four sites in St. Charles, a planned 
community near Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland.
    The Consent Decree prohibits additional illegal discharges by the 
Defendants, and requires Defendants to, among other things: (1) Pay a 
$360,000 civil penalty to the United States; (2) escrow $40,000 to be 
used for additional wetland plantings in open spaces on one of the 
parcels located in Dorchester Neighborhood; (3) carry out remediation 
plans at two parcels, Parcel L and Town Center South, that will result 
in the restitution of fourteen (14) acres of wetlands and the creation 
of new wetlands and wetland buffers on fifty-seven (57) acres; and (4) 
place deed restrictions or conservation easements on all remediation 
sites identified in the consent decree.
    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 Lynne A. 
Battaglia, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, United 
States Department of Justice, Attention: W. Warren Hamel, AUSA, 101 W. 
Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21012, and refer to United States 
v. Interstate General Company, Civ. No. AW-96-1112 and USAO No. 96-
00096.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern 
Division, 6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770.
W. Warren Hamel,
Chief, Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Section, U.S. Attorney's 
Office, District of Maryland.
[FR Doc. 99-26826 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]
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