# 3M Company et al.
> **Judicial** · FY2013 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400036875`
- **Case Number:** 02-2013-0005
- **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)
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- American Cyanamid-Lederle-Shulton, Inc.
- American Standard Companies
- Arkema Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Ashland Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Avantor Performance Materials, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Avery Dennison Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Bee Chemical Company
- Benjamin Moore & Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- Ber Mar Manufacturing Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Borden Chemical, Inc.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Browning-Ferris Industries of New Jersey, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- CBS Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- CNA Holdings LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Chemcoat Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Chemical Pollution Control, Inc. of NY
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
- Congoleum Corporation
- Continental Holdings Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Cycle Chem, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Cytec Industries, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Dri Print Foils, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DuPont De Nemours Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Exxon Mobil Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Exxon Mobil Oil Corporation (complaint)
- General Electric Company (complaint) (settlement)
- General Motors Corporation
- Glaxosmith Kline, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Goodrich Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- HCR Manorcare, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Honeywell International Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- John L. Armitage & Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- Johnson & Johnson (complaint) (settlement)
- Kirker Enterprises, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- L.E. Carpenter & Company (complaint) (settlement)
- LanxessCorporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Mack Trucks, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Magid Corp.
- Marisol, Inc.
- Merck & Co., Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Momentive Speciality Chemicals Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Monroe Chemical, Inc.
- Nepera, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- New England Laminates Co., Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

The remediation for this site was separated into three operable units. On September 27, 2012, EPA issued a Record of Decision relating to Operable Unit Three (OU3) for the Site.  The OU3 remedy addresses groundwater located outside the boundaries of the former SCP facility as well as deep groundwater beneath the shallow aquifer at that facility.  On March 13, 2013, EPA notified a group of 66 parties, including Settling Defendants, of their potential responsibility regarding the Site and provided them with an opportunity to make a good faith offer to perform OU3 and to reimburse EPA for its costs.   The estimated cost of the OU3 remedy is $7,830,000.  

On April 29, 2013, liaison counsel for the Settling Defendants expressed a willingness to finance and perform the Remedial Design and Remedial Action (RD/RA) for OU3.  Subsequently, negotiations commenced with the Settling Defendants and culminated in the settlement embodied in the Consent Decree.

The Consent Decree requires the Settling Defendants to do the following activities, among others:  a)Design and implement the remedy for OU3; b)Pay $50,000 towards unreimbursed costs incurred from September 4, 2002 through November 30, 2012; c)Reimburse all interim costs incurred from December 1, 2012 to the effective date of the Consent Decree; and d)Reimburse all future response costs incurred other than what are defined as “Future Oversight Costs” in the Consent Decree.

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