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UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON BROS. COAL CO., INC.

Civ. A. No. 81-945.

532 F.Supp. 979 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. THOMPSON BROTHERS COAL CO., INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

February 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Alan Johnson, U. S. Atty., Joel B. Strauss, Asst. U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., Mimi Methvin, Staff Atty., Dept. of the Interior, Charleston, W. Va., for plaintiff.

Stephen C. Braverman, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.

OPINION

DUMBAULD, District Judge.

In the case at bar the United States sues to collect a civil penalty1 of $1,000 allegedly incurred by defendant coal company for violation of a regulation prohibiting pollution of a stream by discharging mine drainage without first purifying it by use of a sedimentation pond.2

Defendant does not contest the existence of the violation, but alleges that section...

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