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Comments Sought on Amendments to Clean-water Consent Decrees with Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati, Ohio
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U. S. Department of Justice, on behalf of U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ohio EPA and Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, has invited public comments on proposed amendments to two 2004 consent decrees. The decrees settled legal claims that Hamilton County and Cincinnati violated the Clean Water Act and Ohio law regarding combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows. In a June 5 letter, the three agencies conditionally approved a $3.29 billion Wet Weather Improvement Program to control CSOs and SSOs in Hamilton County. The three agencies approved the WWIP on condition that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio would sign or “enter” the amendments to the two consent decrees.
The original documents are known as the CSO Consent Decree and the SSO Consent Decree. The proposed consent decree amendments were lodged with the District Court on July 28. A notice in the Aug. 3 Federal Register announced the public comment period. Comments should be submitted by Wednesday, Sept. 2, in accordance with directions on the U.S. Department of Justice Web site.
The three agencies and the Justice Department will review comments received during the public comment period in determining whether to ask the District Court to enter the consent decree amendments.
The following documents pertain to the WWIP and amendments to the consent decree:
• August 3, 2009 Notice in Federal Register of Lodging of Amendment to Consent Decrees under the Clean Water Act. (PDF) (2p, 48 KB)
• July 28, 2009 Notice of Lodging of the Proposed First Amendment to the Consent Decrees. (PDF) (2p, 10 KB)
• July 28, 2009 Proposed First Amendment to the Consent Decrees. (PDF) (20p, 569 KB)
• June 5, 2009 Conditional Approval by EPA of MSDGC’s Final Wet Weather Improvement Plan.
- EPA Conditional Approval of MSDGC Final WWIP – June 5 2009 (PDF) (6p, 115 KB)
- EPA Conditional Approval of MSDGC Final WWIP – App A (PDF) (49p, 2.94 MB)
- EPA Conditional Approval of MSDGC Final WWIP – App B (PDF) (2p, 29 KB)
- EPA Conditional Approval of MSDGC Final WWIP – App C (PDF) (16p, 275 KB)
• June 4, 2009 Final WWIP from MSDGC.
- MSDGC Final WWIP Transmittal Ltr - June 4 2009 (PDF) (2 p, 130 KB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP – June 4 2009 (PDF) (15p, 313 KB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP Att 1A 1B 1C (PDF) (7p, 570 KB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP Att 2 (PDF) (6p, 737 KB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP Att 3 (PDF) (5p, 137 KB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP Att 4 (PDF) (16p, 1.03 MB)
- MSDGC Final WWIP Att 5 (PDF) (2p, 34 KB)
• April 22, May 7 and May 20 Comments from Sierra Club on MSDGC’s March 2009 Proposed WWIP. (PDF) (8p, 234 KB)
• March 25, 2009 Proposed WWIP from MSDGC. (PDF) (19p, 8.40 MB)
•February 9, 2009 Lower Mill Creek Alternatives White Paper from MSDGC (PDF) (6p, 43 KB)
•and attached Figures (PDF) (4p, 2.91 MB)
• November 25, 2008 Disapproval by EPA of MSDGC’s September 2008 Proposed WWIP (PDF). (22p, 420 KB)
• September 16, 2008 Proposed WWIP from MSDGC. (PDF) (236p, 61.9 MB)
• June 9, 2004 CSO Consent Decree and Exhibits.
- Global CD (PDF) (112p, 3.02 MB)
- Global CD Exhibits (PDF) (79p, 2.46 MB)
• June 9, 2004 SSO Consent Decree and Exhibits.
- Interim Partial CD (PDF) (84p, 1.91 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 1 (PDF) (3p, 432 KB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 2 (PDF) (2p, 20.3 KB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 3 (PDF) (15p, 287 KB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 4 (PDF) (109p, 3.62 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 5 (PDF) (27p, 618 KB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 6 (PDF) (86p, 871 KB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 7 (PDF) (70p, 1.05 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 8A (PDF) (39p, 1.11 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 8B (PDF) (56p, 5.39 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 8C (PDF) (15p, 1.37 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 8D (PDF) (68p, 4.67 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 9 (PDF) (88p, 1.17 MB)
- Interim Partial CD Exhibit 10 (PDF) (49p, 3.45 MB)