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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Pursuant to the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

In accordance with Departmental policy and section 122 of the

Comprehensive Response, Compensation and Liability Act (``CERCLA''), 42

U.S.C. 9622, the Department of Justice gives notice that a proposed

consent decree in United States v. USX Corp., et al., Civil No. 98 C

6389 (N.D. Ill.), was lodged with the United States District Court for

the Northern District of Illinois on November 5, 1998, pertaining to

the Yeoman Creek Landfill Superfund Site (the ``Site''), located in

Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. The proposed consent decree would

resolve the United States' civil claims against all twenty-one

defendants named in the action as provided in the consent decree. The

settling defendants are USX Corp.; Stone Container Corp.; Coral

Chemical Co.; Victory Memorial Hospital Association; Franciscan Sisters

Healthcare Corp.; The Copley Press, Inc.; North Chicago Refiners &

Smelters, Inc. and R. Lavin & Sons, Inc.; North Shore Sanitary

District; North Shore Printers, Inc.; Westvaco Corp.; Jensen Disposal,

Inc.; Waukegan Park District; American National Bank & Trust Co. of

Chicago, as successor Trustee to Bank of Ravenswood under Trust No. 25-

9142, and the Terrace Nursing Home Limited Partnership and Beneficiary

of Trust No. 25-9142; American National Bank & Trust Co. of Waukegan,

as Trustee under Trust No. 2566, and John Zygokostas as Beneficiary of

Trust No. 2566; Chicago Title and Trust Co., as Trustee under Trust

Agreement Dated September 28, 1970, and Known as Trust No. 55858, and

James E. Evoy, Paul E. Kamschulte, Jr., and Allan J. Jacobs as

Beneficiaries; Sheldon Lovinger and Norman Kramer, jointly and as

Beneficiaries of Grand National Bank Trust No. 1922; Grand Premier

Trust and Investment, Inc., N.A. as successor Trustee to American

National Bank & Trust Company of Waukegan under Trust Agreement dated

December 28, 1977, and known as Trust No. 1455, and Chien-Huey Shih as

Beneficiary of Trust No. 1455; Howard I. Bass, individually and d/b/a

HIBCO Investments; Evoy, Kamschulte, Jacobs & Company, L.L.P.; The

Terrace Nursing Home, Inc.; and Sunset House Restaurant, Inc. Under the

proposed consent decree, the twenty-one settling defendants would pay a

total of $1,585,990.00. Twenty of the settling defendants qualify as de

minimis parties under CERCLA Section 122(g).

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, Environment and Natural Resource Division, United

States Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and should refer to

United States v. USX Corp., et al., Civil No. 98 C 6389 (N.D. Ill.),

and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-2-1315/1.

The proposed consent decree may be examined at: (1) The Office of

the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 219

S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604; (2) the United States

Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard,

Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590 (contact Stuart Hersh (312-886-6235)); and

(3) the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources

Division Consent Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW, 3rd Floor,

Washington, DC 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, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In

requesting a copy, please refer to the referenced case and DOJ

Reference Number and enclose a check in the amount of $15.50 for the

consent decree only (62 pages at 25 cents per page reproduction costs),

or $17.25 for the consent decree and all appendices (69 pages), made

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98-30999 Filed 11-19-98; 8:45 am]

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