[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 30, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 24737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11032]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging Proposed Stipulation and Order

    In accordance with Departmental Policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Stipulation and Order in United States, et 
al. v. NSTAR Electric Co. d/b/a Eversource Energy, Harbor Electric 
Energy Co., and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Civil Action 
No. 16-11470-RGS, was lodged with the United States District Court for 
the District of Massachusetts on May 23, 2017.
    This proposed Stipulation and Order concerns a complaint filed by 
the United States against Defendants NSTAR Electric Co. d/b/a 
Eversource Energy, Harbor Electric Energy Co., and the Massachusetts 
Water Resources Authority, for violations of Section 10 of the Rivers 
and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. 403, and Section 404(s) of the Clean 
Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344(s). The complaint seeks injunctive relief 
from, and civil penalties against, the Defendants for violating a 
permit issued in 1989 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers 
pursuant to the above statutes. The permit allowed a submarine cable to 
be installed across Boston Harbor, from an electrical substation in 
South Boston to Deer Island. The complaint alleges that the Defendants 
are the permittees or successors-in-interest to the permittees. Also, 
the complaint alleges that, within two federal channels, the Reserved 
Channel and the Main Ship Channel, the Defendants laid the cable at 
shallower depths than what the permit required. The proposed 
Stipulation and Order resolves these allegations by requiring the 
Defendants to lay a new cable from South Boston to Deer Island and then 
remove, or partly remove and partly abandon, the existing cable.
    The Department of Justice will accept written comments relating to 
this proposed Stipulation and Order for thirty (30) days from the date 
of publication of this Notice. Please address comments to Christine 
Wichers, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's 
Office, One Courthouse Way, Suite 9200, Boston, MA 02210, and refer to 
United States, et al. v. NSTAR Electric Co. d/b/a Eversource Energy, 
Harbor Electric Energy Co., and Massachusetts Water Resources 
Authority, DJ # 90-5-1-1-20730.
    The proposed Stipulation and Order may be examined at the Clerk's 
Office, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 
One Courthouse Way, Suite 2300, Boston, MA 02210. In addition, the 
proposed Stipulation and Order may be examined electronically at http://www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.

Cherie L. Rogers,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-11032 Filed 5-26-17; 8:45 am]
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