[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2505-2506]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-823]


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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, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is 
hereby given that a proposed Consent Decree in United States v. 
Interstate Pollution Control, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 98C50426, 
(N.D. Illinois) entered into by the United States and 57 parties, was 
lodged on January 4, 1999, with the United States District Court for 
the Northern District of Illinois. The proposed Consent Decree will 
resolve claims of the United States against Interstate Pollution 
Control, Inc., Anderson's Garage, Inc. and 55 potentially responsible 
party generators [Abrasive Machining, Inc.; Acme Grinding Co.; American 
Shaft Co.; Amerock Corp.; Atwood Industries, Inc.; Barber-Colman Co.; 
Berol USA; Borg-Warner Automotive. Inc.; Camcar Division of Textron, 
Inc.; Caterpillar, Inc.; Cherry Valley Tool & Machine, Inc.; Clinton 
Electronics Corp.; Coltec Industries, Inc.; Commonwealth Edison Co.; 
Counselor (Brearley) Co.; Dana Corp. (Warner Electric); Eclipse 
Combustion, Inc.; Elco Textron, Inc.; Frantz Manufacturing Co.; The 
Gates Corp. d/b/a The Gates Rubber Co.; General Motors Corp.; Goss 
Graphics Systems, Inc.; Greenlee Textron, Inc.; GTE Communications 
Systems Corp.; Honeywell, Inc. (Micro Switch Division); IKON Office 
Solutions, Inc. o/b/o/ Ipsen Commercial Heat Treating; J.L. Clark, Inc. 
f/k/a/ J.L. Clark Manufacturing Co.; Kelsey Hayes Co.; Keystone 
Consolidated Industries, Inc.; Metal Cutting Tools Corp.; Mid-States 
Screw Corp.; Mobile Oil Corp.; Modern Metal Products Co.; The National 
Machinery Co.; Pacific Bearing Corp.; Patten Industries, Inc.; Pierce 
Chemical Co.; Precision Group, Inc. successor to Illinois Machine 
Products; The Quaker Oats Co.; Quality Metal Finishing Co.; Quebecor 
Printing Mt. Morris, Inc.; RB&W Corp.; Readette & Dunn Platters, Inc.; 
Rockford Blacktop Construction Co.; Rockford Bolt & Steel Co.; Rockford 
Drop Forge Co.; Rockford Headed Products, Inc.; Saws International, 
Inc.; Sundstrand Corp.; Thomas Industries, Inc.; Twin Disc, Inc.; The 
Valspar Corp.; Warner Lambert Co.; White

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Consolidated Industries, Inc.; and, Woodward Governor Co.], for 
recovery of past response costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency at the Interstate Pollution Control, Inc., Superfund 
Site, Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, pursuant to the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 
42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq. (``CERCLA''). The settlement requires the 
Settling Defendants to make payment of $315,000 to the United States 
following entry of the proposed Consent Decree.
    The Consent Decree includes a covenant not to sue by the United 
States under Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), for recovery 
of past response costs at the Site.
    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, 
United States Department of Justice, P.O. Box 7611, Ben Franklin 
Station, Washington, D.C. 20044-7611, and should refer to United States 
v. Interstate Pollution Control, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 
98C50426, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-11-2-1276.
    The proposed Consent Decree may be examined at the Office of the 
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Western 
Division, 308 West State Street, Suite 300, Rockford, Illinois 61101; 
the Region 5 Office of the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; and at 
the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW, 4th Floor, Washington, 
DC 20005, telephone no. (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 DJ #90-11-2-1276, and enclose a 
check in the amount of $22.25 (25 cents per page for reproduction 
costs), payable to the Consent Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section Environment, and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-823 Filed 1-13-99; 8:45 am]
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