Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 C.F.R. Sec. 50.7, notice

is hereby given that a proposed Settlement Agreement and Order in

United States v. Maiorano, Case No. 87 C 4491, was lodged with the

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on

July 7, 1995. The proposed Settlement Agreement and Order will resolve

civil claims brought against Louis Maiorano, Sr. and Louis Maiorano,

Jr. for failure to comply fully with orders previously issued by the

District Court in the above-captioned action under the Resource

Conservation

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and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6901 et seq., relating to

defendants' former Aero Plating Works facility in Chicago, Illinois.

The proposed Settlement Agreement and Order requires defendants to pay

$8,000 into an interest-bearing escrow account that will be used to pay

costs of activities necessary to comply with applicable requirements

for closure of the Aero Plating Works facility, where defendants at one

time treated, stored or disposed or hazardous waste. Following a

determination by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that

closure of the facility has been satisfactorily completed, proceeds of

the escrow account will used to reimburse closure costs incurred by the

current owner of the facility once operated by defendants.

The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30

days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the

proposed Settlement Agreement and Order. Comments should be addressed

to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural

Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and

should refer to United States v. Maiorano, Case No. C 87 4491 and the

Department of Justice Reference No. 90-7-1-388A.

The proposed Settlement Agreement and Order may be examined at the

Office of the United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois,

Everett McKinley Dirksen Building, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,

Illinois, and at U.S. EPA Region 5, Office of Regional Counsel, 200

West Adams, Chicago, Illinois; and at the Consent Decree Library, 1120

G Street, N.W. 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005, 202-624-0892. A copy

of the proposed Settlement Agreement and Order may be obtained in

person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W.,

4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy, please refer

to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount of $1.50 (24

cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Bruce S. Gelber,

Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources

Division.

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