# Arkema Inc. et al.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2012 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3000030313`
- **Case Number:** 02-2012-2015
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Lucent Technologies) (settlement)
- Arkema Inc. (settlement)
- Ashland Inc. (settlement)
- Atlantic Richfield Company (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (settlement)
- Belleville Industrial Center (settlement)
- Benjamin Moore & Co. (settlement)
- CBS Corporation (settlement)
- CNA Holdings LLC (settlement)
- Chevron Environmental Management Company (settlement)
- Coats & Clark, Inc. (settlement)
- Coltec Industries (settlement)
- Conopco, Inc. (settlement)
- Cooper Industries, LLC (settlement)
- Covanta Essex Company (settlement)
- Croda Inc. (settlement)
- DII Industries, LLC (settlement)
- DiLorenzo Properties Company (settlement)
- E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company (settlement)
- EPEC Polymers, Inc. (settlement)
- Eden Wood Corporation (settlement)
- Elan Chemical Company (settlement)
- Essex Chemical Corporation (settlement)
- Exelis Inc. (settlement)
- Flexon Industries Corp. (settlement)
- Franklin-Burlington Plastics, Inc. (settlement)
- Garfield Molding Co., Inc. (settlement)
- General Electric Company (settlement)
- Givaudan Fragrances Corporation (settlement)
- Goodrich Corporation (settlement)
- Hess Corporation (settlement)
- Hexcel Corporation (settlement)
- Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (settlement)
- Honeywell International Inc. (settlement)
- ISP Chemicals LLC (settlement)
- Kao USA Inc. (settlement)
- Leemilt's Petroleum, Inc. (settlement)
- Legacy Vulcan Corp. (settlement)
- Linde LLC (settlement)
- Mallinckrodt Inc. (settlement)
- McKesson Corporation (settlement)
- National-Standard LLC (settlement)
- Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (settlement)
- News Publishing Australia Ltd. (settlement)
- Novelis Corporation (Alcan Aluminum) (settlement)
- Otis Elevator Company (settlement)
- PPG Industries, Inc. (settlement)
- Pfizer, Inc. (settlement)
- Pharmacia Corporation (settlement)
- Public Service Electric and Gas Company (settlement)
## Summary

EPA entered into an Administrative Order on Consent (“AOC”) with 70 potentially responsible parties pursuant to which those parties will perform a time-critical removal action to address contaminated sediments in the Lower Passaic River at River Mile 10.9 (in the area of Lyndhurst).  The settling parties will remove surface sediments in the area with the highest concentrations of contaminants, including PCBs, mercury and dioxin, and place a cap in this area to reduce the potential for exposure to and/or resuspension of these sediments.

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