[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 224 (Friday, November 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 64524]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30999]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
In accordance with Departmental policy and section 122 of the
Comprehensive Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42
U.S.C. 9622, the Department of Justice gives notice that a proposed
consent decree in United States v. USX Corp., et al., Civil No. 98 C
6389 (N.D. Ill.), was lodged with the United States District Court for
the Northern District of Illinois on November 5, 1998, pertaining to
the Yeoman Creek Landfill Superfund Site (the ``Site''), located in
Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. The proposed consent decree would
resolve the United States' civil claims against all twenty-one
defendants named in the action as provided in the consent decree. The
settling defendants are USX Corp.; Stone Container Corp.; Coral
Chemical Co.; Victory Memorial Hospital Association; Franciscan Sisters
Healthcare Corp.; The Copley Press, Inc.; North Chicago Refiners &
Smelters, Inc. and R. Lavin & Sons, Inc.; North Shore Sanitary
District; North Shore Printers, Inc.; Westvaco Corp.; Jensen Disposal,
Inc.; Waukegan Park District; American National Bank & Trust Co. of
Chicago, as successor Trustee to Bank of Ravenswood under Trust No. 25-
9142, and the Terrace Nursing Home Limited Partnership and Beneficiary
of Trust No. 25-9142; American National Bank & Trust Co. of Waukegan,
as Trustee under Trust No. 2566, and John Zygokostas as Beneficiary of
Trust No. 2566; Chicago Title and Trust Co., as Trustee under Trust
Agreement Dated September 28, 1970, and Known as Trust No. 55858, and
James E. Evoy, Paul E. Kamschulte, Jr., and Allan J. Jacobs as
Beneficiaries; Sheldon Lovinger and Norman Kramer, jointly and as
Beneficiaries of Grand National Bank Trust No. 1922; Grand Premier
Trust and Investment, Inc., N.A. as successor Trustee to American
National Bank & Trust Company of Waukegan under Trust Agreement dated
December 28, 1977, and known as Trust No. 1455, and Chien-Huey Shih as
Beneficiary of Trust No. 1455; Howard I. Bass, individually and d/b/a
HIBCO Investments; Evoy, Kamschulte, Jacobs & Company, L.L.P.; The
Terrace Nursing Home, Inc.; and Sunset House Restaurant, Inc. Under the
proposed consent decree, the twenty-one settling defendants would pay a
total of $1,585,990.00. Twenty of the settling defendants qualify as de
minimis parties under CERCLA Section 122(g).
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, Environment and Natural Resource Division, United
States Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to
United States v. USX Corp., et al., Civil No. 98 C 6389 (N.D. Ill.),
and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-2-1315/1.
The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of
the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 219
S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604; (2) the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Stuart Hersh (312-886-6235)); and
(3) the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources
Division Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW, 3rd Floor,
Washington, DC 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, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In
requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and DOJ
Reference Number and enclose a check in the amount of $15.50 for the
consent decree only (62 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction costs),
or $17.25 for the consent decree and all appendices (69 pages), made
payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-30999 Filed 11-19-98; 8:45 am]
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