# American Standard Inc., et al. (Avery Dennison Corp.)
> **Judicial** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `156981`
- **Case Number:** 02-2005-0016
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- 3M COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN INKS AND COATINGS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- American Standard Inc (complaint) (settlement)
- Avery Dennison Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- BP LUBRICANTS USA INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRENNTAG NORTHEAST INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BTA NORTH EAST INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEVRON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CONTINENTAL HOLDINGS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- Clean Earth of North Jersey, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Duty Lubricants Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- FMC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- GOODALL RUBBER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- GOULD ELECTRONICS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HATCO CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- LOOS & DILWORTH, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MACK TRUCKS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MARISOL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW ENGLAND CONTAINER CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NOVELIS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OWENS CORNING (complaint) (settlement)
- PRIOR COATED METALS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- QUAKER CITY INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- REICHHOLD INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- REXAM BEVERAGE CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- RUTGERS ORGANICS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- SIMPSON PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANS AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
- STEPAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- STEVENS INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- THE BOEING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- WYETH (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Recommends initiation of settlement discussions with potentially responsible parties for performance of the remedial design and remedial action and recovery of past response costs regarding the Martin Aaron Superfund Site. This consent decree resolves the Settling Defendants' liability under CERCLA for EPA's past costs and for performance of the RD/RA for the soil. The consent decree requries the settling defendants will excavate and dispose of highly contaminated soil containing arsenic and volatile organic compounds, remove buried tannery waste material, cap residual soil contamination, and demolish an industrial building in order to excavate the contaminated soil beneath the building. The settling defendants have received the standard covenant not to sue for the soil remedy under Sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA.

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