[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 176 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62764-62765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21864]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Motion To Amend Consent Decree Under the Clean Water
Act
On September 6, 2016, the Department of Justice filed a stipulated
motion to amend a Consent Decree with the United States District Court
for the Western District of Washington in the lawsuit entitled United
States v. Trident Seafoods Corporation, Civil Action No. 11-1616RSL
(the United States and Trident Seafoods Corporation, jointly, the
``Parties''), proposing to modify certain injunctive measures required
under the Consent Decree entered in this matter on June 18, 2012,
resolving Trident's alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (``CWA''
or ``Act'').
The Consent Decree (``CD'') requires, among other measures intended
to reduce discharges of seafood processing wastes from multiple Trident
processing facilities in Alaska, that Trident build a fishmeal plant at
its North Naknek, Alaska facility and, upon operating the fishmeal
plant for one year, to eliminate discharges from its seafood processing
facility. The Parties only recently realized that the CD, as written,
prohibits any discharge from Trident's processing facility, a result
that cannot be achieved even by state-of-the-art practices. The
proposed Amendment would allow the facility to discharge waste that
cannot practically be captured using state-of-the-art controls, i.e.,
waste particles that pass through a 0.5 mm mesh screen. The proposed
Amendment accurately reflects what the Parties intended at the time
they reached settlement; employment of state-of-the-art discharge
controls to achieve a discharge limit more stringent than that required
by law. The Parties' failure to provide for this discharge in the
original CD was inadvertent and the proposed Amendment corrects that
oversight.
The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on
the proposed Amendment to the Consent Decree. Comments should be
addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, and should refer to United States v. Trident
Seafoods Corporation, Civil Action No. 11-1616RSL., DJ Reference Number
90-5-1-1-2002/2.
All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after
the publication date of this notice. Comments may be submitted either
by email or by mail:
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To submit comments: Send them to:
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By email............................ [email protected].
By mail............................. Assistant Attorney General, U.S.
DOJ-ENRD, P.O. Box 7611,
Washington, DC 20044-7611.
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During the public comment period, Consent Decree may be examined
and downloaded at this Justice Department Web site: https://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent_decrees.html. We will provide a paper copy
of the Amendment to the Consent Decree upon written request and payment
of reproduction costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Consent
Decree Library, U.S. DOJ--ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044-
7611.
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Please enclose a check or money order for $2.75 (25 cents per page
reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury.
Susan M. Akers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment
and Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-21864 Filed 9-9-16; 8:45 am]
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