Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessments and Opportunities to Comment Regarding the Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Honolulu and Waiau Generating Stations, Proceedings Under Clean Water Act Section 309(g)(1), (2)(B) and 40 CFR 22.13(b)

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EPA is providing notice of two proposed administrative penalty assessments for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (the "Act"). EPA is also providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessments. EPA is authorized under section 309(g) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), to assess a civil penalty after providing the person subject to the penalty notice of the proposed penalty and the opportunity for a hearing, and after providing interested persons notice of the proposed penalty and a reasonable opportunity to comment on its issuance. Under section 309(g), any person who without authorization discharges a pollutant to a navigable water, as those terms are defined in section 502 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1362, may be assessed a penalty in a "Class II" administrative penalty proceeding. Class II proceedings under section 309(g) are conducted in accordance with the "Consolidated Rules of Practice Governing the Administrative Assessment of Civil Penalties, Issuance of Compliance or Corrective Action Orders, and the Revocation, Termination or Suspension of Permits" (part 22), 40 CFR part 22. The procedures through which the public may submit written comment on a proposed Cla