[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 13633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5505]


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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 on March 2, 2012, a proposed Consent Decree was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the District of 
Massachusetts in United States v. Charles Johnson, et al., Civil Action 
No. 99-12465-EFH.
    The proposed Consent Decree would resolve the United States' claims 
against the defendants Charles Johnson, Genelda Johnson, Francis Vaner 
Johnson, and the Johnson Cranberries Limited Partnership (the 
``defendants'') for violations of sections 301(a) and 404 of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(a) and 1344. The proposed Consent Decree 
requires the defendants to pay a civil penalty and implement 
restoration and mitigation measures to create and restore wetlands in 
southeastern Massachusetts and to restore and perform compensatory 
mitigation at three existing cranberry bogs known as the Log Swamp Bogs 
off Great Meadow Drive in Carver, Massachusetts. The proposed Consent 
Decree also requires the defendants to restore wetlands at a site near 
Cross Street in Carver, Massachusetts, and an area of Beaver Dam Brook, 
which is at the Cross Street site.
    The Department of Justice will receive comments relating to the 
proposed Consent Decree for a period of thirty (30) days from the date 
of this publication. Comments should be addressed to Assistant United 
States Attorney George Henderson, 1 Courthouse Way, Suite 9200, Boston, 
Massachusetts, 02210, and should refer to United States v. Charles 
Johnson, et al., Civil Action No. 99-12465-EFH, DJ  90-5-1-1-
05720.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Clerk's Office, 
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1 
Courthouse Way, Suite 2300, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, and at Region 
1 of the Environmental Protection Agency, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 
100, Boston, Massachusetts 02109-3912. In addition, the proposed 
Consent Decree may be examined electronically at http://www.justice.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.

Cherie L. Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment & 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-5505 Filed 3-6-12; 8:45 am]
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