[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7473-7474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3988]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, 
and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act

    In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed partial consent decree in United States 
versus The Sherwin-Williams Company, Civil Action No. 93-C-4267, was 
lodged with the United States District Court for the Northern District 
of Illinois on February 6, 1997. This proposed consent decree would 
resolve the United States' civil claims against The Sherwin-Williams 
Company under Subchapter III of the Resource Conservation and Recovery 
Act (``RCRA''), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.; the Clean Water 
Act, as amended, 33 U.S.c. 1251 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, as amended, 
42 U.S.C. Secs. 7401 et seq.; Subchapter IX of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6991 et 
seq.; and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, 42 
U.S.C. 11001 et seq. Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, 
Sherwin-Williams will pay a civil penalty of $4.7 million, perform 
supplemental environmental projects that will cost the company a total 
of $1.1 million, undertake a corrective action to investigate and 
remediate contamination to the soil and groundwater at and emanating 
from the

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company's Chicago facility, and perform other injunctive relief.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
proposed consent decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to 
United States versus The Sherwin-Williams Company, Civil Action No. 93-
C-4267, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-5-2-1-1829.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, Everett McKinley 
Dirksen Building, Room 1200, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 
Illinois 60604; the Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at 
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, 
D.C. 20005, 202-624-0892. A copy of the proposed consent decree may be 
obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G 
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, 
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount 
of $32.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the 
Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-3988 Filed 2-18-97; 8:45 am]
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