# OLIN OU2 SUPERFUND SITE (RD/RA AND COST RECOVERY)
> **Judicial** · FY2020 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602287605`
- **Case Number:** 04-2020-9007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

12/5/2025 - 1/29/2021 - AMENDMENT TO REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION CONSENT DECREE FOR OPERABLE UNIT TWO OF THE OLIN CORP. (MCINTOSH PLANT) SUPERFUND SITE

The Consent Decree modification implements additional and expanded cleanup at the Olin Corp. (McIntosh Plant) Superfund Site in McIntosh, Alabama. The modification requires the settling defendants (Olin and BASF) to implement the remedy selected in the 2024 Amended Record of Decision (AROD). This remedy encompasses areas at the Site that were found to contain contamination exceeding cleanup levels that were not identified in the 2014 ROD. Under the Consent Decree modification, the settling defendants will conduct and implement and additional $38.7 million of work, including in-situ stabilization, institutional and engineering controls, habitat replacement/enhancement and the installation of an engineered cap to remediate mercury, hexachlorobenzene and DDT contamination. The total value of all the cleanup work at OU2 totals $72 million. The proposed Consent Decree modification was lodged on August 29, 2025, and the public comment period was open from September 10 to October 10, 2025. No public comments were received by the DOJ regarding the proposed Consent Decree. 

1/29/2021 - CONSENT DECREE ENTERED FOR REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION CONSENT DECREE FOR OPERABLE UNIT TWO OF THE OLIN CORP. (MCINTOSH PLANT) SUPERFUND SITE: On January 29, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (Southern Divis

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