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, the Department of Justice

gives notice that a proposed consent decree in the case captioned

United States v. Commonwealth Edison Company, Civil Action No. 99 C

5628 (N.D. Ill.), was lodged with the United States District Court for

the Northern District of Illinois on September 15, 1999. The proposed

consent decree relates to the Standard Scrap Metal/Chicago

International Exporting Site located at 4004-4020 South Wentworth and

4000-4027 South Wells Streets in Chicago, Illinois. The proposed

consent decree would resolve civil claims of the United States for

recovery of past response costs under section 107 of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42

U.S.C. 9607, against the Commonwealth Edison Company. The proposed

consent decree would require

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the Commonwealth Edison Company to pay the United States a total of

$600,000.

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. Commonwealth Edison Company, Civil Action No. 99 C

5628 (N.D. Ill.), and DOJ Reference No. 90-11-3-1414/6.

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

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

South Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 60604 (contact Samuel Brooks

(312-353-5342)); and (2) the United States Environmental Protection

Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-

3590 (contact Michael Anastasio (312-886-7951). Copies of the proposed

consent decree may be obtained by mail from the Department of Justice

Consent Decree Library, PO Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044. In

requesting copies, please refer to the referenced case and DOJ

Reference Number and enclose a check for $4.25 (17 pages at 25 cents

per page reproduction cost), made payable to the Consent Decree

Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural

Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 99-25335 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]

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