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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency standard formal Highway Authority Agreement and a Lake County Supplemental Highway Authority Agreement between BP Products North America Inc. and Lake County as required by the IEPA in order for it to consider the issuance of a “No Further Remediation” letter to BP for its property at 2132 Green Bay Rd in North Chicago necessary for the redevelopment of said property.
Staff Summary
· Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW Quadrant at IL Rte 131, Highway Authority Agreements with BP Products North America Inc.
· BP Products North America Inc. (BP) owns property situated at 2132 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, Illinois which has or had leaking underground storage tanks impacting the right of way of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
· BP is requesting a “No Further Remediation” letter from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) relative to this property.
· As a condition of granting said “No Further Remediation” letter the IEPA requires property owners to enter into standard formal Highway Authority Agreements stating rights and obligations relative to contaminants that may have migrated into nearby highway rights-of-way.
· Lake County has determined that a Supplemental Highway Authority Agreement is also necessary.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of both agreements with BP.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, BP Products North America Inc. (BP), is the owner of property situated at 2132 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, Illinois which is in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (County Highway 54) and IL Rte 131 (Green Bay Rd); and
WHEREAS, BP is the owner or operator of leaking underground storage tanks presently or formally located at said site which caused the release of contaminants into the soil and/or groundwater including within the right of way of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; and
WHEREAS, BP i...
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