Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act,

and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act

In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, notice is

hereby given that a proposed partial consent decree in United States

versus The Sherwin-Williams Company, Civil Action No. 93-C-4267, was

lodged with the United States District Court for the Northern District

of Illinois on February 6, 1997. This proposed consent decree would

resolve the United States' civil claims against The Sherwin-Williams

Company under Subchapter III of the Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (``RCRA''), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.; the Clean Water

Act, as amended, 33 U.S.c. 1251 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, as amended,

42 U.S.C. Secs. 7401 et seq.; Subchapter IX of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6991 et

seq.; and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, 42

U.S.C. 11001 et seq. Under the terms of the proposed consent decree,

Sherwin-Williams will pay a civil penalty of $4.7 million, perform

supplemental environmental projects that will cost the company a total

of $1.1 million, undertake a corrective action to investigate and

remediate contamination to the soil and groundwater at and emanating

from the

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company's Chicago facility, and perform other injunctive relief.

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 for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should refer to

United States versus The Sherwin-Williams Company, Civil Action No. 93-

C-4267, and the Department of Justice Reference No. 90-5-2-1-1829.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at the Office of the

United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, Everett McKinley

Dirksen Building, Room 1200, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago,

Illinois 60604; the Region 5 Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590; 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 consent decree 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 $32.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 97-3988 Filed 2-18-97; 8:45 am]

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