Clean Water Act Class II: Proposed Administrative Penalty Assessment and Opportunity to Comment Regarding the California Department of Transportation and the Granite Construction Company

摘要

EPA is providing notice of a proposed administrative penalty assessment for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (the ``Act''). EPA is also providing notice of opportunity to comment on the proposed assessment. 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 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 Class II order or participate in a Class II proceeding, and the procedures by which a respondent may request a hearing, are set forth in Part 22. The deadline for submitting public comment on a proposed Class II order is thirty (30) days after publ