Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced his office has reached a settlement with 401 North Wabash Venture LLC, known as Trump International Hotel & Tower. Once approved by a judge, the settlement will resolve violations of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and Illinois Pollution Control Board regulations relating to the building’s cooling water intake system, which uses water from the Chicago River. The federal Clean Water Act regulates cooling water intake structures because they withdraw large volumes of water into a building’s cooling system, pulling in fish and other aquatic life with it. Fish and other aquatic organisms can also get trapped against intake screens. The building at 401 North Wabash, located along the Chicago River, operates a cooling water intake system capable of pulling more than 20 million gallons of water from the river per day to cool the building’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Under the proposed agreement, 401 North Wabash Venture LLC will pay $4.8 million, including $1.5 million in civil penalties and $3 million for a supplemental environmental project (SEP), which will involve restoring the Chicago River habitat for fish and aquatic life. The defendant will also pay $300,000 for litigation costs. The settlement requires the installation of flow meters to monitor the volume of heated water it discharges into the river.