The Canton City Council is ending years of legal disputes with Navistar about the cleanup of the former International Harvester factory site this week.
The Harvester site caught fire in 1997, and Navistar made an agreement with the city to clean the site in 2007, but a lawsuit followed from the city in 2010. Negotiations were restarted last year.
The council voted Tuesday, 7-1, to approve a settlement agreement that requires Navistar to bring the site up to EPA standards at the company's expense. Navistar will also pay the city $2 million, and place $100,000 in an escrow account for the Harvester site.
Navistar has to provide a work plan within sixty days, but Canton's mayor says it's expected the EPA standards will take "quite some time" to reach.
