# BASF Corporation et al.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602006149`
- **Case Number:** 02-2018-2025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- 3M Company (settlement)
- ABB Inc. (settlement)
- Air Product and Chemicals, Inc. (settlement)
- Akzo Nobel Coatings Inc. (settlement)
- Arconic Inc. (settlement)
- Arkema Inc. (settlement)
- Ashland LLC (settlement)
- Avantor Performance Materials, LLC (settlement)
- Avery Dennison Corporation (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (settlement)
- Becton, Dickinson and Company (settlement)
- Belmont Metals, Inc. (settlement)
- Benjamin Moore & Co. (settlement)
- Ber Mar Manufacturing Corp. (settlement)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (settlement)
- Browning-Ferris Industries of New Jersey, Inc. (settlement)
- CBS Corporation (settlement)
- CNA Holdings LLC (settlement)
- Chemcoat, Inc. (settlement)
- Cognis USA LLC (settlement)
- Columbia University (settlement)
- Congoleum Corporation (settlement)
- Conopco, Inc. (settlement)
- Continental Holdings, Inc. (settlement)
- Cosan Chemical Corporation (settlement)
- Cycle Chem, Inc. - ACV Enviro (settlement)
- Cytec Industries Inc. (settlement)
- D.F. Goldsmith Chemical & Metal Corporation (settlement)
- Dri-Print Foils, Inc. (settlement)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (settlement)
- Exxon Mobil Corporation (settlement)
- FUJIFILM Graphic Systems U.S.A., Inc. (settlement)
- Garfield Refining Company (settlement)
- General Electric Company (settlement)
- GlaxoSmithKline LLC (settlement)
- Goodrich Corporation (settlement)
- HCR ManorCare, Inc. (settlement)
- Hexion Inc. (settlement)
- Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (settlement)
- Honeywell International Inc. (settlement)
- ICI Americas Inc. (settlement)
- ISP Environmental Services Inc. (settlement)
- Johnson & Johnson (settlement)
- Kirker Enterprises, Inc. (settlement)
- L.E. Carpenter & Co. (settlement)
- LANXESS Corporation (settlement)
- MTA New York City Transit (settlement)
- Mack Trucks, Inc. (settlement)
- Mallinckrodt Inc. (settlement)
- Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (settlement)
## Summary

This administrative settlement agreement and order on consent requires the Respondents to perform a remedial design of the remedy selected in the Record of Decision signed by the Administrator on September 25, 2018 for the Berry's Creek Study Area located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The work is estimated to cost $11 million and the Respondents agree to pay all future oversight costs incurred by EPA in overseeing the work.

Amendment signed on December 5, 2023, requires expedited access support activities in addition to the required remedial design work for the remedy selected in the Record of Decision signed by the Administrator on September 25, 2018 for the Berry's Creek Study Area located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The work added by the amendment is estimated to cost $30 million and the Respondents agree to pay all future oversight costs incurred by EPA in overseeing the work.

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