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

[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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