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108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5387 
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to pro-
vide remedial actions and other assistance to affected residents near 
the Wauconda Sand and Gravel Superfund Site. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2004 
Mr. CRANE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to provide remedial actions and other assistance 
to affected residents near the Wauconda Sand and Grav-
el Superfund Site. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wauconda Technical 
and Environmental Remediation Act of 2004’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following:
Gravel pit on the National Priorities List in Sep-
tember, 1983. 
(7) On September 15, 2003, the Lake County 
Health Department, Illinois, started sampling 17 
residential wells east of the site. The results of the 
testing of these wells showed vinyl chloride contami-
nation in 7 wells, with the highest level of contami-
nation being 3.6 micrograms per liter. 
(8) On January 13, 2004, the Lake County 
Health Department held a public meeting to discuss 
these results with local residents. The EPA started 
negotiating with potentially responsible parties, 
named the Wauconda Task Group, to provide for the 
testing of 121 additional wells in the Hillcrest sub-
division in Wauconda and to provide bottled drink-
ing water to Wauconda residents. 
(9) After completion of the testing in March, 
2004, 81 of the 121 residential wells tested showed 
vinyl chloride contamination. 
(10) The results were discussed with local resi-
dents and the Wauconda Task Group provided bot-
tled drinking water to Wauconda residents whose 
wells tested above 1 microgram of vinyl chloride per 
liter.
(11) The Wauconda Task Group, under the 
oversight of the EPA, was also given the opportunity 
to expand testing sites. 
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE.—The Administrator of 
the EPA shall— 
(1) provide bottled drinking water to Wauconda 
residents served by residential wells with any con-
tamination of vinyl chloride; and 
(2) increase the testing and monitoring of wells 
of Wauconda residents. 
(b) CONTINUING RESPONSIBILITY.—Nothing in this 
Act may be construed to relieve the Administrator, any 
other head of a Federal agency, or a potentially liable 
party of any legal liability with respect to the cleanup of 
the Wauconda Sand and Gravel Superfund site. 
(c) REMEDIAL
ASSISTANCE.—The Administrator 
shall— 
(1) conduct a study to examine possible long 
term solutions to remediate the Wauconda Sand and 
Gravel Superfund site and to provide a clean drink-
ing water source for Wauconda residents; and 
(2) make recommendations and implement a 
long term solution based on such recommendation to
provide a clean drinking water source for such resi-
dents. 
(d) COMPREHENSIVE RESOLUTION.—The Adminis-
trator shall work with the heads of other appropriate Fed-
eral and State agencies to seek a comprehensive resolution 
to both the short term and long term environmental and 
health problems related to the Wauconda Sand and Gravel 
Superfund site. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$6,000,000 from the Hazardous Substance Superfund es-
tablished under section 9507 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act: 
(1) 
WAUCONDA
RESIDENT.—The 
term 
‘‘Wauconda resident’’ means an individual living 
within a 1.5-mile radius of the Wauconda Sand and 
Gravel Superfund site. 
(2) EPA.—The term ‘‘EPA’’ means the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency. 
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