# Alcan Corporation
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2004 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `118177`
- **Case Number:** 02-2004-2011
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Alcan Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Alliance Chemical, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Amerada Hess (complaint) (settlement)
- American Ref-Fuel Company of Essex County (settlement)
- Andrew Jergens Co. (THE) (complaint) (settlement)
- Arkema Inc (settlement)
- Ashland, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- BOC Group (The) (settlement)
- Belleville Industrial Center (settlement)
- Benjamin Moore & Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- CBS Corporation f/k/a Viacom Inc (settlement)
- Celanese LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- Chemical Leaman Corp. (settlement)
- Chemtura Corp&Raclaur LLC fka Atlantic Industires (settlement)
- Chevron Environmental Management Company (settlement)
- Coltec Industries Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Conopco Inc d/b/a Unilever (settlement)
- Covanta Essex Company (settlement)
- Croda Inc (settlement)
- Curtiss-Wright Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- DiLorenzo Properties Company (settlement)
- E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- EPEC Polymers Inc oboi & EPEC Oil Co Liquidating T (settlement)
- Eden Wood Corporation (settlement)
- Elan Chemical Company (settlement)
- Essex Chemical Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Flexon Industries Corp (settlement)
- Franklin Burlington Plastics Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Garfield Molding Co Inc (settlement)
- General Electric Company (settlement)
- General Motors Corporation (settlement)
- Givaudan Fragrances Corporation (settlement)
- Goodrich Corp oboi & Kalama Specialty Chemicals In (settlement)
- Goody Products, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Hartz Consumer Group Inc (The) & Hartz Mountain (settlement)
- Hercules Chemical Company Inc (settlement)
- Hess Corp & obo Atlantic Richfield Company (settlement)
- Hexcel Corporation (settlement)
- Hoffmann-La Roche Inc oboi & Roche Diagnostics (settlement)
- Honeywell International Inc (settlement)
- ISP Chemicals LLC (settlement)
- ITT Corporation (settlement)
- Leemilt's Petroleum, Inc. (settlement)
- Lucent Technologies Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Mallinckrodt, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Millennium Chemicals Inc (settlement)
- NPEC, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- National-Standard LLC (settlement)
- Newark Group (The) (settlement)
## Summary

Respondents are financing an EPA led RI/FS of the Lower Passaic River Study Area portion of the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site pursuant to a CERCLA 122(h) Agreement.

Amendment No.1 - final 11/09/2005 - adding 12 PRPs and respondents agreed to provide contingent funding if EPA needs such additional funding to complete the RI/FS.

Amendment No. 2 - final 08/27/2007 - By entering into this amendment to the Agreement, the settling parties are agreeing to provide up to $2,400,000 in contingent funding if EPA needs the money to complete the remaining aspects of the RI/FS for the Lower Passaic River.  All settling parties (the existing ones and the 29 new ones) will be covered by the covenant not to sue and contribution protection.

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