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Background
The Outboard Marine Corporation, Inc. (OMC) site is located in the northern Waukegan Harbor area in Waukegan, Illinois. The site containsfour cleanup parcels, called "operable units" (OUs). The Waukegan Harbor (WH) site is OU #1. The Waukegan Manufactured Gas and Coke Plant (WCP) site is OU #2. The PCB containment cells created when the harbor was cleaned up in 1992 is OU #3, and theOMC Plant 2 site is OU #4.
Land use in the immediate area of the OMC site is marine recreational and industrial andthere is a public beach on Lake Michigan on the east side of the WCP site. OMC declaredbankruptcy in December 2000 andbegan liquidation proceedings in August 2001. The city of Waukegan purchased the WCP site andthen theOMC Plant 2 property from the bankruptcy estateas part of its plan to revitalizeitslakefront. It hopes to build townhomes and condominiums where the coke plant and OMC Plant 2 once stood.