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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Notice is hereby given that on July 25, 1997, three proposed

Consent Decrees in United States versus Alcan Aluminum, et al., Civil

Action No. 97-3094, were lodged with the United States District Court

for the Central District of Illinois.

In this action, the United States sought to recover costs incurred

in conducting response activities as a result of releases or threatened

releases of hazardous substances at the Pierce Waste Oil Services Site,

located in Springfield, Illinois. The proposed settlements are set

forth in three Consent Decrees that address the liability of all

twenty-six defendants in this action, each of which has been named as a

generator of hazardous

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substances sent to the Site. Twenty-one of the 26 defendants negotiated

as a group in one settlement; four other defendants negotiated in

another settlement; and one defendant settled in an ability-to-pay

settlement. Together, these settlements will recover $1,307,280, not

including interest.

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

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

Decrees. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General

of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of

Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to United States versus

Alcan Aluminum, et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1177.

The Consent Decrees may be examined at the office of the United

States Attorney, Central District of Illinois, Room 312 Federal

Building, 600 East Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois 62701, at

United States Environmental Protection Agency Region V, 77 West Jackson

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, and at the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624-0892. A

copy of the Consent Decrees may be obtained in person or by mail from

the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor, Washington,

DC 20005. In requesting copies of these three proposed settlements,

please enclose a check in the amount of $23.50 (25 cents per page

reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-21059 Filed 8-8-97; 8:45 am]

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