Title
Joint resolution authorizing a Highway Authority Agreement and Supplemental Highway Authority Agreement between Lake County and Graham C-Stores Company related to property located at 221 West Rollins Road in Round Lake Beach, Illinois.
Staff Summary
* Graham C-Stores Company owns property at the southeast corner of Rollins Road and Cedar Lake Road (221 West Rollins Road), Round Lake Beach, Illinois, which has or had leaking underground storage tanks.
* Graham C-Stores is conducting corrective action in response to the release and has requested a No Further Remediation (NFR) letter from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enable the use and redevelopment of the property.
* As a condition of granting a NFR letter, the Illinois EPA requires that property owners enter into a standard Highway Authority Agreement stating rights and obligations relative to contaminants that may have been released into nearby highway rights-of-way.
* Lake County also requires a Supplemental Highway Authority Agreement with additional rights and obligations above and beyond what is stipulated in the Highway Authority Agreement.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Graham C-Stores Company is the owner of property situated at the southeast corner of Rollins Road and Cedar Lake Road (221 West Rollins Road), Round Lake Beach, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, Rollins Road, County Highway 31, and Cedar Lake Road, County Highway 28, are designated routes on the county highway system; and
WHEREAS, Graham C-Stores Company is the owner/operator of leaking underground storage tanks located at the site which caused the release of contaminants into the soil and/or groundwater and which may have released into the adjacent Rollins Road and Cedar Lake Road rights-of-way; and
WHEREAS, Graham C-Stores Company is in the process of remediating contamination at said property and has requested from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a No Further Remediation (NFR) letter to enable the...
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