CONEXANT SYSTEMS, INC., ET AL.

On February 18, 2010, following a mandatory thirty-day public comment period, the United States moved to enter a Consent Decree that will settle the case United States v. Highview Gardens, Inc. (Civil Action No. 2:09-CV-02827-PD). On February 23, 2010, Judge Paul Diamond on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania signed and entered the Consent Decree. The government’s case was brought under Sections 107 and 113 of CERCLA in June 2009 and concerns the United States’ cost recovery claim at the Recticon/Allied Steel Superfund Site in Parker Ford, East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The settling defendant Highview Gardens, Inc. owned a portion of the Site when TCE and other hazardous substances were disposed of there. From 1974-1981, Highview leased its Site property to Recticon Corporation which manufactured silicon wafers there. Recticon’s manufacturing process produced various waste streams that included spent solvents containing TCE and other hazardous substances. The Site was placed on the NPL in 1989. Recticon’s parent Rockwell International Corporation and Rockwell’s successor Conexant Systems, Inc. have performed a remedial action at the Site under an administrative order. Highview is also a respondent to that order, but has not previously contributed toward the costs of the Site’s clean-up. Under the Consent Decree, Highview agreed to settle the United States’ claim. With this settlement, potentially responsible