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 September 29, 1997, a proposed

Consent Decree in United States v. Case Corporation, et al., Civil

Action No. 97-4101, was lodged with the United States District Court

for the Central District of Illinois.

The Consent Decree settles an action brought under Section 107 of

the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability

Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601, et seq., (``CERCLA'') for the recovery of

past costs incurred by the United States in responding to releases or

threatened releases of hazardous substances at the A.A. Waste Oil Site,

located in Rock Island, Illinois. The proposed settlement set forth in

the Consent Decree addresses the liability of twenty-eight defendants

in this action, each of which has been named as a generator of

hazardous substances sent to the Site. Under the terms of the proposed

decree, the settling defendants will pay the United States a total of

$395,000 in settlement of the United States' past costs claims against

them.

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 v.

Case Corporation, et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-2-1261.

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

States Attorney, Central District of Illinois, 100 N.E. Monroe Street,

Room 216, Peoria, IL 61620, 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. In requesting copies of these three proposed

settlements, please enclose a check in the amount of $12.75 (25 cents

per page reproduction cost) payable to the Consent Decree Library, and

should refer to United States v. Case Corporation, et al., D.J. Ref.

90-11-2-1261.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-26655 Filed 10-7-97; 8:45 am]

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