# Akzo Nobel Coatings (for Reliance Universal), et al.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2004 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `126172`
- **Case Number:** 02-2004-2023
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Akzo Nobel Coatings (for Reliance Universal) (complaint) (settlement)
- Alumax Mill Products, Inc o/b/o Howmet Aluminum (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Borden Chemical, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Chemical Waste Mgnt -successor to SCA Chemical Ser (complaint) (settlement)
- Chevron Environmental Mgnt Co itself and obo 9 co (complaint) (settlement)
- D.A. Stuart Oil Company (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Engelhard Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Ford Motor Company (complaint) (settlement)
- General Motors Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Hoffman-La Roche Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Honeywell International, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- ICI Americas Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Johnson & Johnson (Personal Care Products Group) (complaint) (settlement)
- Kurz-Hastings, Inc (complaint) (settlement)
- Millenium Petrochemicals, Inc. (US Industrial Chem (complaint) (settlement)
- Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co. a/k/a 3M Company (complaint) (settlement)
- National Starch & Chemical Co (complaint) (settlement)
- Nestle USA, Inc. (for Buitoni Foods) (complaint) (settlement)
- PPG Industries, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRC-DeSoto Intern't  f/k/a Products Research & Che (complaint) (settlement)
- Pharmacia Corp f/k/a Monsanto Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Reckitt Benckiser, Inc (for Airwick Industries Inc (complaint) (settlement)
- Reichhold, Inc (complaint) (settlement)
- Rexam Beverage Can Co/MRC Holdings, Inc. o/b/o (complaint) (settlement)
- Sequa Corp/Sun Chemical Corp (complaint) (settlement)
- Sherwin-Williams Company, The (complaint) (settlement)
- Solvent Recovery Services of NJ Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Technical Coatings Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- Tuscan/Lehigh Dairies, Inc. f/k/a Tuscan Lehigh Da (complaint) (settlement)
- U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp o/b/o former div S&W Wast (complaint) (settlement)
- Valspar Corp (for Lilly Industries, Inc.) (complaint) (settlement)
- Volkswagen of America, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Whittaker Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Zeneca, Inc. (for Converter's Ink Company) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA seeks to recover costs incurred performing response actions at the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Site. The settling parties have agreed to reimburse EPA's past response costs in two installment payments. A third payment is due within 540 days of the effective date of the agreement, but it is subject to reduction or even forgiveness in the form of an orphan share credit that will be calculated based on the value of work that the settling parties are currently performing at the Site, and additional work that they are expected to perform in the future.  

The settling parties are expected to enter into a final settlement with respect to the Site, to perform additional work, within 540 days of the effective date of this agreement.

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