[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 20009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8501]


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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 Of America 
v. Bar-1 Ranch, Ltd.; Bar 1 Ranch, Llc; Bar-1 Ranch 2, Llc; Bar-One 
Ranch Management, Llc; and Alfred Barone, Docket No. 9:09-cv-00130-DWM-
JCL, was lodged with the United States District Court for the District 
of Montana on March 31, 2011.
    This proposed Consent Decree concerns a complaint filed by the 
United States against Bar-1 Ranch, Ltd.; Bar 1 Ranch, Llc; Bar-1 Ranch 
2, Llc; Bar-One Ranch Management, Llc; and Alfred Barone, pursuant to 
28 U.S.C. 1331, 1345, and 1355, and Sections 301, 309(b), and 404 of 
the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1319(b) and 1344, 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 
restore the impacted areas and to pay a civil penalty.
    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 Daniel Pinkston, 
Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources 
Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 999 18th Street, South Terrace, 
Suite 370, Denver, Colorado 80202, and refer to United States v. Bar-1 
Ranch, Ltd., DJ 90-5-1-1-18203.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Montana, Russell Smith 
Courthouse, 201 East Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59801. In addition, 
the proposed Consent Decree may be viewed at http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.

Cherie L. Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2011-8501 Filed 4-8-11; 8:45 am]
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