# Morton International, LLC - Ventron/Velsicol
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2025 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604561021`
- **Case Number:** 02-2025-2011
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Morton International, LLC (settlement)
## Summary

On September 29, 2025, Region 2 signed an Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent with Respondent for the Ventron/Velsicol Superfund Site, located in the Boroughs of Wood-Ridge and Carlstadt, Bergen County, New Jersey.  Respondent was the former owner of a portion of the Site and operated a mercury processing plant which reclaimed mercury from both in-house and customer waste products. The Site was listed on the National Priorities List on September 24, 1984; and the Record of Decision for Operable Unit 1 was issued in 2006. Under the Settlement Agreement, Respondent will conduct a Supplemental Investigation and Focused Feasibility Study valued at approximately $885,000 and pay EPA?s future oversight costs.

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