[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 157 (Monday, August 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 49947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-20115]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (``CERCLA'')

    Notice is hereby given that on August 6, 2010 a proposed consent 
decree (``proposed Decree'') in United States v. Central Rubber Co., et 
al., C.A. No. 3:10-cv-50193, was lodged with the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
    In this action under Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 
9607(a) (``CERCLA''), the United States sought to recover response 
costs incurred or to be incurred by the United States as a result of 
releases and threatened releases of hazardous substances from the 
manufacturing facilities owned or operated by Central Rubber Company, 
Woodhead Industries, Inc., Textron, Inc., Camcar LLC, and Johns 
Manville (the ``Settling Defendants'') located at the Parsons Casket 
Hardware Superfund Site, in Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois. The 
proposed Decree requires the Settling Defendants to pay $3.6 million to 
the United States in reimbursement of past and future response costs, 
and provides the defendants with a covenant not to sue under Sections 
106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a), for ``Covered 
Response Actions'' and ``Covered Response Costs.'' The Decree also 
requires Owner Settling Defendants (those defendants who own real 
property within the Superfund Site), to provide access to their 
properties to the United States Environmental Protection Agency which 
will be performing the remedial action at the Site, to cooperate with 
U.S. EPA in its performance of the remedy, and to prepare and record 
Environmental Restrictive Covenants which grant certain Proprietary 
Controls to the State of Illinois and U.S. EPA to facilitate 
performance of the remedial action.
    The Department of Justice will receive for a period of thirty (30) 
days from the date of this publication comments relating to the 
proposed Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney 
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and either e-
mailed to [email protected] or mailed to P.O. Box 7611, 
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20044-7611, and should refer 
to United States v. Central Rubber Co., et al., D.J. Ref. 90-11-3-
09324.
    The proposed Decree may be examined at the Office of the United 
States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 219 South 
Dearborn Street, Suite 500, Chicago, Illinois 60604, or the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency (Region 5), 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. During the public comment period, 
the proposed Decree may also be examined on the following Department of 
Justice Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ConsentDecrees.html. A copy 
of the proposed Decree may also be obtained by mail from the Consent 
Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, 
DC 20044-7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a request to Tonia Fleetwood 
([email protected]), fax no. (202) 514-0097, phone confirmation 
number (202) 514-1547. In requesting a copy from the Consent Decree 
Library, please enclose a check in the amount of $48.25 (25 cents per 
page reproduction cost) payable to the U.S. Treasury or, if by e-mail 
or fax, forward a check in that amount to the Consent Decree Library at 
the stated address.

Maureen Katz,
Assistant Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and 
Natural Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-20115 Filed 8-13-10; 8:45 am]
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