The Settlement Agreement concerns the preparation and performance of an RI/FS for Operable Unit Two of the Lake Calumet
Cluster Site, which consists of the groundwater at and emanating from the parcels commonly known as the Album/American Incineration, Inc., Site; the U.S. Drum II Site; the Unnamed Parcel(s) Site; and the Paxton Avenue Lagoons Site, bounded by the Land and Lakes Landfill to the west, 122nd Street to the south, the Norfolk and Western Railroad right of way and the Indian Ridge Marsh to the east, and Paxton I and II Landfills (119th Street) to the north, all in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (the Cluster Site or the Site ). The Settlement Agreement also concerns the reimbursement of future oversight response costs incurred by EPA in connection with the Operable Unit Two RI/FS.