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

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52527-52528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25335]


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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, the Department of Justice 
gives notice that a proposed consent decree in the case captioned 
United States v. Commonwealth Edison Company, Civil Action No. 99 C 
5628 (N.D. Ill.), was lodged with the United States District Court for 
the Northern District of Illinois on September 15, 1999. The proposed 
consent decree relates to the Standard Scrap Metal/Chicago 
International Exporting Site located at 4004-4020 South Wentworth and 
4000-4027 South Wells Streets in Chicago, Illinois. The proposed 
consent decree would resolve civil claims of the United States for 
recovery of past response costs under section 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 
U.S.C. 9607, against the Commonwealth Edison Company. The proposed 
consent decree would require

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the Commonwealth Edison Company to pay the United States a total of 
$600,000.
    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. Commonwealth Edison Company, Civil Action No. 99 C 
5628 (N.D. Ill.), and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-3-1414/6.
    The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 219 
South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 60604 (contact Samuel Brooks 
(312-353-5342)); and (2) the United States Environmental Protection 
Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-
3590 (contact Michael Anastasio (312-886-7951). Copies of the proposed 
consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice 
Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In 
requesting copies, please refer to the referenced case and DOJ 
Reference Number and enclose a check for $4.25 (17 pages at 25 cents 
per page reproduction cost), made payable to the Consent Decree 
Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 99-25335 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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