The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), in the course of a remedial investigation, discovered approximately 200 drums buried at the southwest corner of the Site. DEC requested that EPA perform a time-critical removal. EPA excavated the drums and contaminated soil and staged these materials for off-site disposal/treatment. EPA identified Ashland and Unisys to drums disposed of at the Site. These two Respondents entered into an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) in May 2000 pursuant to which they completed the removal action.
The settlement was entered with Ashland and Unisys and eleven other PRPs who were identified and sent notice letters after the issuance of the May 2000 AOC .
The settlement was amended on January 14, 2004 to add two additional PRPS. The two new PRPs will pay a total of an additional $22,000 as a result of their late entry into the settlement. The new PPRs will have the same obligations as the other PRPs in the original settlement.