The Pala Band of Mission Indians will pay $915,000 to settle allegations over illegal dumping into the San Luis Rey River in California.
The tribe will pay a $370,000 penalty to the federal government and donate $545,000 to The Nature Conservancy, a conservation group. The amount is higher than the $695,000 that tribal officials said they were going to pay to settle a Clean Water Act dispute.
As part of consent decrees filed in federal court, the tribe did not admit to wrongdoing. The tribe said a company it was working with was responsible for dumping materials into the river.
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Government files consent decrees in dispute with Pala
(The North County Times 11/7)
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