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Outboard Marine Corporation, Waukegan Harbor Public Meeting
Public meeting | Background | Contact
Public Meeting
EPA will hold a public meeting to explain its recommended cleanup plan and answer your questions. We will also accept oral and written comments at the meeting.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
6:00-8:00 pm
Jane Addams Center
95 Jack Benny Drive
Waukegan, IL.
EPA wants your comments on our proposed cleanup plan. Your thoughts and opinions help us to determine the final cleanup plan. Based on your comments and information provided to EPA, the Agency may revise the selected cleanup plan or pick another option.
During the public meeting, EPA will explain the recommended cleanup plan. After the presentation, you may ask questions and provide your written or spoken comments about what you've heard. You may also submit comments online.
Contact
If you require special accommodations to attend this meeting, or need more information, please contact:
Mike Joyce, Community Involvement Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at 800-621-8431, Ext. nnnnn, or direct at 312-nnn-nnnn.
Background
The Outboard Marine Corporation, Inc. (OMC) site is located in the northern Waukegan Harbor area in Waukegan, Illinois. The site containsfour cleanup parcels, called "operable units" (OUs). The Waukegan Harbor (WH) site is OU #1. The Waukegan Manufactured Gas and Coke Plant (WCP) site is OU #2. The PCB containment cells created when the harbor was cleaned up in 1992 is OU #3, and theOMC Plant 2 site is OU #4.
Land use in the immediate area of the OMC site is marine recreational and industrial andthere is a public beach on Lake Michigan on the east side of the WCP site. OMC declaredbankruptcy in December 2000 andbegan liquidation proceedings in August 2001. The city of Waukegan purchased the WCP site andthen theOMC Plant 2 property from the bankruptcy estateas part of its plan to revitalizeitslakefront. It hopes to build townhomes and condominiums where the coke plant and OMC Plant 2 once stood.
Copies of the feasibility study, proposed plan, and other site-related documents are available for review at:
- Waukegan Public Library, Reference Desk, 128 N. County St., Waukegan, IL.
- EPA Region 5 Record Center, 77 West Jackson Blvd., 7th Floor, Chicago, IL. (weekdays 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
An administrative record file, which contains the information upon which the selection of the cleanup plan will be based, has also been placed at [address].