Clean Water Act Class I: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity to Comment Regarding the California Department of Transportation and FCI Constructors

Résumé

EPA is providing notice of a proposed administrative penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (the ``Act'') and also providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed penalty. Under 309(g) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1319(g), EPA is authorized to issue orders assessing civil penalties for various violations of the Act. EPA may issue such orders after filing a Complaint commencing either a Class I or Class II penalty proceeding. EPA provides public notice of the proposed assessment pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 1319(g)(4)(a). Class I proceedings under section 309(g) are conducted in accordance with Subpart I of the proposed ``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,''(''proposed Part 22''), which has been published in the Federal Register at 63 FR 9480 (February 25, 1998). On October 5, 1998, EPA commenced the following Class I proceeding for the assessment of penalties by filing with the Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S. EPA, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105, (415) 744-1391, the following Com