# CHARTER INTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `274`
- **Case Number:** 01-1993-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $232K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHARTER INTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1993, EPA REGION I REFERRED A CONSENT     DECREE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONCERNING SETTLEMENT OF CLAMS UNDER CERCLA SECTION 107. THESE CLAIMS INVOLVE THE     RECOVERY OF RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED AND TO BE INCURRED BY    THE UNITED STATES IN CONNECTION WITH THE SULLIVAN'S LEDGE    SUPERFUND SITE IN NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. UNDER THE      TERMS OF THE PROPOSED CONSENT DECREE, THE DEFENDANT,         CHARTER INTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANY (CIOC), WILL PAY           $215,000, PLUS INTEREST, TO THE UNITED STATES. IN RETURN,    FOR THIS PAYMENT, CIOC WILL RECEIVE A RELEASE FROM CLAIMS    UNDER CERCLA SECTONS 106 AND 107(A) AND RCRA SECTION 7003,   SUBJECT TO STANDARD REOPENERS.

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