# MERCK & CO INC (CHEMICAL CONTROL SITE)
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3670`
- **Case Number:** 02-1989-0377
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $397K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A.T.&T. TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- ADVANCE FIBER TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AGATE LACQUER MANUFACTURING CO. INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALADIN TRASPARENT PACKAGING (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED COLLOIDS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALLIED SIGNAL INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALPHA METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ALUMINUM SHAPES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERADA HESS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN CYANAMID, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN THREAD THE (complaint) (settlement)
- ANCO PACKAGING (complaint) (settlement)
- ARISTECH CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ATOCHEM NORTH AMERICA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- AVNETM INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BARR LABORATORIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BATES MANUFACTURING THE (complaint) (settlement)
- BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BECTON DICKINSON AND COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BELZONA AMERICA (complaint) (settlement)
- BEROL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BIG THREE INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BORDEN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BRISTOL-MEYERS PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWING FERRIS INDUSTRIES CHEMICAL SER. (complaint) (settlement)
- C.R. GIBSON COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CADBURY BEVERAGES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CANRAD INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CARGILL, INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARLES OF THE RITZ GROUP LTD. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEM SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CINCINNATI MILACRON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COLLOIDS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CONGOLEUM CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CONTROLOTRON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COSMAIR, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CUNO INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- CUSTOM DISPOSAL (complaint) (settlement)
- DEFENDANTS W/SETTLEMENT 1-SETTLEMENT 2 (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUPPORT ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS WITH  RESPECT TO THE CHEMICAL CONTROL SUPERFUND SITE, A CERCLA  NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST SITE LOCATED IN ELIZABETH, NJ.  THE SITE IS A DEFUNCT CHEMICAL WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITY OPERATED BY THE CHEMICAL CONTROL CORPORATION     FROM 1970 UNTIL 1978.  THE FACILITY WAS RAVAGED BY FIRE AND  EXPLOSION IN 1980, WHICH RESULTED IN THE RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AND CREATED THE CONTAMI- NATED SOIL AND GROUNDWATER CONDITIONS PRESENTLY AT THE SITE. EPA HAS PERFORMED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AND A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND CHOSE AN APPROPRIATE REMEDIAL ALTERNATIVE IN A ROD IN 1987.    REPS FROM EPA REGION II AND DOJ HAVE INITIATED ONGOING     NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRPS FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE RD/RA  AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR PAST FEDERAL EXPENDITURES AT THE SITE. APPROXIMATELY 90% OF THE 276 PRPS WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A DE MINIMIS SETTLEMENT.  ON 10/23/90, THE CONSENT DECREE EMBODYING THE SETTLEMENT   WAS LODGED WITH THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF NEW   JERSEY.  PRIOR TO THAT ON 9/21 FILED COMPLAINTS AGAINST  THE SETTLING PRPS AND EIGHT NON-SETTLING PRPS.               CONSENT DECREE AND AMENDMENT HAS BEEN ENTERED  CD#02-92-C007

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