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EPA, DOJ and Indiana Reach Proposed Settlement on Westville, Ind., Superfund Site

12/30/2010 - U.S. EPA Region 5, U.S. DOJ, Indiana DEM and the Office of the Indiana Attorney General have reached a proposed settlement with a group of 13 potentially responsible parties who will pay for and complete the final phase of cleanup at the Cam-Or Superfund site in Westville, Ind.

Cam-Or re-refined waste oil from 1934 to 1987. This is the fourth action involving cleanup at the site since 1987.
 
It was named to EPA's Superfund National Priorities List in 1998. To date, EPA has reached agreements with private parties to pay $28.4 million out of $31.4 million in total site costs.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, U.S. Department of Justice, Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the Office of the Indiana Attorney General have reached a proposed settlement with a group of 13 potentially responsible parties who will pay for and complete the final phase of cleanup at the Cam-Or Superfund site in Westville, Ind.

U.S. Steel is among the group that will provide $12 million to complete an engineering design and a cleanup of contaminated groundwater, subsurface chemical breakdown products and heavy metals-contaminated soil at the long-closed waste oil recycler in Westville, in LaPorte County.
 
The group also will pay EPA an additional $2.4 million to cover the cost of overseeing the work and other administrative costs. And they have agreed to pay the State of Indiana's oversight costs in full for the duration of the cleanup.

Project design work is scheduled to begin in 2011, with cleanup targeted for the 2012 and 2013 construction seasons.

The consent decree was lodged with U.S. District Court on December 22nd and will be subject to a 30-day public comment period.
 
The 13 responsible parties — called "Work Settling Defendants" — are:
 
·         Alcoa Aluminum, Inc.
·         ANR Pipeline Co.
·         Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.
·         Consolidated Rail Corp.
·         CSX Transportation, Inc.
·         Ford Motor Co.
·         Imperial Oil Ltd.
·         Ingersoll-Rand Co.
·         Northern Indiana Public Service Co.
·         Rockwell Automation
·         C. Stoddard & Sons, Inc.
·         Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
·         United States Steel Corp.