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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** October 8, 1997
- **Citation:** 62 FR 52574

## Text

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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