# FISCHER & PORTER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19207`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0476
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $15K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BLUE MARLIN ASSOCIATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary


A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER AGREEMENT ( PPA ) UNDER THE         COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND      LIABILITY ACT OF 198, AS AMENDED, ( CERCLA ), 42 U.S.C.      SECTION 9607-9676 WITH BLUE MARLIN ASSOCIATES ( BLUE         MARLIN ) REGARDING BLUE MARLIN'S PURCHASE OF A PORTION OF    THE FISCHER & PORTER SUPERFUND SITE IN WARMINISTER TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, ( THE SITE ) FROM COROAD         ASSOCIATES II, L.P. ( CONROAD II ) WAS SIGNED BY EPA ON      SEPTEMBER 29, 2000, AND APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF        JUSTICE ON NOVEMBER 22, 2000, PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH      THIRTY DAYS TO REVIEW AND COMMENT ON THE PPA.  THE PPA       PROVIDES BLUE MARLIN WITH A COVENANT NOT TO SUE,             CONTRIBUTION PROTECTION AND A WAIVER OF THE UNITED STATES'   LIEN HELD ON THE PROPERTY PURSUANT TO CERCLA.  IN RETURN FOR THE COVENANT, BLUE MARLIN PAID TO EPA THE SUM OF $15,000,    WILL PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE SITE, AND OTHERWISE COMPLY WITH   REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN THE PPA.                           THE SITE WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN 1979 WHEN HIGH LEVELS OF    TWO ORGANIC SOLVENTS, TRICHLOROETHENE ( TCE ) AND            PERCHLOROETHENE ( PCE ) WERE DISCOVERED IN THE INDUSTRIAL    WATER SUPPLY WELLS AT THE FISCHER & PORTER FACILITY AND IN   MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY WELLS OPERATED BY THE HATBORO         BOROUGH WATER AUTHORITY AND THE WARMINISTER HEIGHTS HOME     OWNERSHIPS ASSOCIATION.  THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE          NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST ( NPL ) IN 

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