# OUTBOARD MARINE CORP.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27013`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0317
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OUTBOARD MARINE CORPORATION. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

TY, AND CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE SOIL ON THE WAUKEGAN FACI-   LITY.                                                          THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION ASSERTING CLAIMS AGAINST DEFENDANT, OUTBOARD MARINE CORP. ( OMC ), PURSUANT TO SECT 104 AND 107  OF CERCLA, AND LIABILITY ACT OR 1980, AS AMENDED BY THE      SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986 ( CER-  CLA ), 42 USC SS9604 AND 9607.  IN THIS ACTION, THE U.S.     SEEKS REIMBURSEMENT OF RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED AND TO BE IN- CURRED BY THE U.S. IN RESPONSE TO THE RELEASE OR THREAT OF   RELEASE OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS ( PCB ) AT AND FROM A   FACILITY OWNED AND OPERATED BY OMC AND LOCATED AT 100 SEA-   HORSE DR. IN WAUKEGAN, IL (THE  WAUKEGAN FACILITY ).  IN AD- DITION, THE U.S. SEEKS DAMAGES FOR INJURIES TO NATUREL RE-   SOURCES CAUSED BY RELEASES FROM THE WAUKEGAN FACILITY.         OMC IS A CORP. ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF    DELAWARE.  OMCE OWNS AND OPERATES THE JOHNSON OUTBOARDS DIV. WHICH MANUFACTURES OUTBOARD MOTORS AND THEIR COMPONENT PARTS AT THE WAUKEGAN FACILITY.                                      OMC DISCHARGED AND DISCHARGES PROCESS WATER, NON-CONTACT   COOLING WATER, AND STROM WATER FROM ITS WAUKEGAN FACILITY    INTO THE NORTH DITCH, A TRIBUTARY OF LAKE MICHIGAN, INTO WAU KEGAN HARBOR, AND INTO LAKE MICHIGAN.                          FROM APPROXIMATELY 1959 UNTIL 1972, OMC USED HYDRAULIC     FLUIDS CONTAINING VARYING PERCENTAGES OF PCBS IN A NON-ENCLO SED HYDRAULIC SYSTEM AT THE WAUKEGAN

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