[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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