# LONZA INC
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `412`
- **Case Number:** 01-1995-0110
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.09M
- **Compliance action $:** $7.30M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CCL CUSTOM MANUFACTURING INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CPC INTERNATIONAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- LONZA INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PACIFIC ANCHOR CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- SUPERVALU OPERATIONS INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA REFERRED A SIGNED CONSENT DECREE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF  JUSTICE ON JULY 25, 1995, FOR THE FIRST OPERABLE UNIT AT THE PETERSON/PURITAN, INC. SUPERFUND SITE IN THE TOWNS OF        LINCOLN AND CUMBERLAND, RHODE ISLAND. AS A RESULT OF DOJ'S   PARALLEL APPROVAL PROCESS OF THE SETTLEMENT, THE UNITED      STATES WAS ABLE TO LODGE THE CONSENT DECREE TWO DAYS LATER   ON JULY 27, 1995. THE SETTLEMENT EMBODIED IN THE CONSENT     DECREE PROVIDES THAT FIVE SETTLING PARTIES, CCL CUSTOM       MANUFACTURING, INC., CPC INTERNATIONAL, INC., PACIFIC ANCHOR CHEMICAL COMPANY, LONZA INC., AND SUPERVALU OPERATIONS, INC. (THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS'), WILL PERFORM EPA'S SELECTED      REMEDY FOR OU1 AND WILL REIMBURSE THE UNITED STATES FOR      $1,090,615.56 IN PAST COSTS AND AN ESTIMATED $1.5 MILLION IN FUTURE OVERSIGHT COSTS RELATING TO OU 1. THE TOTAL VALUE OF  THE SETTLEMENT, INCLUDING WORK AND COST REIMBURSEMENT, IS    APPROXIMATELY $10 MILLION. THE SETTLEMENT REPRESENTS AN      APPROXIMATELY 98% RECOVERY IN RESPONSE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OU 1.                                                           ONE NOVEL ASPECT OF THE SETTLEMENT IS THAT THE SETTLING   DEFENDANTS HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO TWO REMEDIAL AREA GROUPS   BASED ON THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR TWO DISTINCT AND DIVISIBLE PLUMES OF CONTAMINATION. EACH REMEDIATION AREA GROUP WILL    PERFORM THE WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTAMINATON EMANATING  FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE FACILITY AREAS. A GROUNDWATER MONITOR- ING PROGRAM WILL BE JOINTLY CONDUCTED 

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