[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26655]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

    Notice is hereby given that on September 29, 1997, a proposed 
Consent Decree in United States v. Case Corporation, et al., Civil 
Action No. 97-4101, was lodged with the United States District Court 
for the Central District of Illinois.
    The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of 
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability 
Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601, et seq., (``CERCLA'') for the recovery of 
past costs incurred by the United States in responding to releases or 
threatened releases of hazardous substances at the A.A. Waste Oil Site, 
located in Rock Island, Illinois. The proposed settlement set forth in 
the Consent Decree addresses the liability of twenty-eight defendants 
in this action, each of which has been named as a generator of 
hazardous substances sent to the Site. Under the terms of the proposed 
decree, the settling defendants will pay the United States a total of 
$395,000 in settlement of the United States' past costs claims against 
them.
    The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the 
Consent Decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department 
of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States v. 
Case Corporation, et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1261.
    The Consent Decree may be examined at the office of the United 
States Attorney, Central District of Illinois, 100 N.E. Monroe Street, 
Room 216, Peoria, IL 61620, at United States Environmental Protection 
Agency Region V, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, 
and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street NW., 4th Floor, 
Washington, DC 20005. In requesting copies of these three proposed 
settlements, please enclose a check in the amount of $12.75 (25 cents 
per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library, and 
should refer to United States v. Case Corporation, et al., D.J. Ref. 
90-11-2-1261.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 97-26655 Filed 10-7-97; 8:45 am]
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