[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 223 (Thursday, November 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64256-64257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30965]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6190-8]
Proposed CERCLA Administrative Settlement; Conservation Chemical
Company of Illinois, Inc. Superfund Site, Gary, Lake County, Indiana
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended
(``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(I), notice is hereby given of a proposed
administrative settlement under section 122(h) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.
9622(h), for recovery of EPA's past response costs and future oversight
costs, and the performance of specified future response activities at
the Conservation Chemical Company of Illinois, Inc. site in Gary, Lake
County, Indiana (``the Site''). The settling parties are as follows:
Lucent Technologies Inc. (for Western Electric; Teletype; and Bell
Telephone Laboratories); Gary Steel Supply Company; Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; LaSalle Steel Company; AlliedSignal Inc. (for Universal
Oil Products); K. A. Steel Chemicals Inc.; Union Oil Company of
California d/b/a/ UNOCAL; The Steel Company (formerly known as Chicago
Steel & Pickling); Union Carbide Corporation; Ansul, Incorporated (for
Ansul Co.); Motorola Inc.; PPG Industries, Inc.; Crucible Materials
Corporation, Trent Tube Division; American Chain & Cable Co., Inc.; and
Navistar International Transportation Corp. (for International
Harvester). EPA is providing the settling parties with orphan share
compensation, to be credited against a portion of EPA's unreimbursed
past costs. The settlement requires the settling parties to pay
$258,304 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for EPA's past costs
through November 30, 1997. The settlement also requires the settling
parties to pay all of EPA's future oversight costs, incurred in
connection with the Site, on and after December 1, 1997. The settlement
further requires the settling parties to fund and conduct substantial
specified future cleanup activities at the Site. The settlement
includes a covenant not to sue the settling partes pursuant section
107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), and a covenant not to sue the
settling parties for the judicial imposition of damages or civil
penalties or to take administrative action for work completed under the
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settlement, and approved by the Agency. The U.S. Department of Justice
has approved this settlement, consistent with section 122(h) of CERCLA.
For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this
document, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the
settlement. The Agency will consider all written comments received and
may modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if comments
received disclose facts or considerations which indicate that the
settlement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. The Agency's
response to any written comments received will be available for public
inspection at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Superfund
Division, Emergency Response Branch, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before December 21,
1998.
ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection
at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Superfund
Division, Emergency Response Branch, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590. A copy of the proposed settlement may be
obtained from Ms. Valerie Mullins, at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 5, Superfund Division, Emergency Response Branch, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3590, telephone number
(312) 353-5578. Written comments should reference the Conservation
Chemical Company of Illinois, Inc., Gary, Indiana and EPA Docket No. V-
W-98-C-497 and should be addressed to Cynthia N. Kawakami, Associate
Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5,
Office of the Regional Counsel, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604-3590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Valerie Mullins, at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, Superfund Division,
Emergency Response Branch, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
60604-3590, telephone number (312) 353-5578.
Dated: November 3, 1998.
William E. Muno,
Director, Superfund Division, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 98-30965 Filed 11-18-98; 8:45 am]
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