# CAM-OR (ALCOA, ET AL) CONSENT DECREE (CERCLA)
> **Judicial** · FY2011 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200037475`
- **Case Number:** 05-2011-1002
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ALCOA, INC. (settlement)
- ANR Pipeline Company (complaint) (settlement)
- C. Stoddard & Sons, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- CSX Transportation, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Consolidated Rail Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Ford Motor Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Imperial Oil Ltd. (complaint) (settlement)
- Ingersoll-Rand Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Northern Indiana Public Service Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Rockwell Automation (complaint) (settlement)
- Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (complaint) (settlement)
- United States Steel Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On March 28, 2011, Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana signed the U.S. v. Alcoa Aluminum, et al CERCLA consent decree(Civil Action no. 3:10-CV-00532).  The Decree embodies a settlement with 13 Work Settling Defendants to perform the RD/RA clean-up, consisting of pump and treat to remove 1,4-dioxane and other hazardous substances from groundwater, removal and disposal of LNAPL, and on-site remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil.  The estimated cost of the clean-up is $12 million.  In addition, thirty days post-entry, these 13 Work Settling Defendants will provide financial assurance for the full cost of the remedy, and will pay into a Superfund special account a lump sum of $2.2 million for U.S. EPA’s future oversight costs.  Once U.S. EPA spends that $2.2 million in oversight, the 13 Settling Defendants will pay 50% of any future costs exceeding $2.2 million.  They also will pay $200 thousand in settlement of U.S. EPA’s other costs.   These 13 Work Settling Defendants are performing work and paying costs representing over 90% of total Site response costs of more than $31 million.   

This consent decree, the fourth enforcement action for Cam-Or, is the culmination of 23 years of enforcement work at the Site, including a PRP-performed removal under a 1989 UAO, cost recovery litigation and a 1993 settlement recovering all of U.S. EPA’s $2.9 million Fund-lead removal costs performed in 1987, and an AOC for performance o

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