# AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4494`
- **Case Number:** 02-1992-0143
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.27M
- **Compliance action $:** $20.60M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A.E. STALEY
- AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
- AMADEI, ANTHONY
- AMERICAN CAN CO (AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN)
- AMERICAN CYANAMID CO (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN INKS & COATINGS CORP
- ANTHONY AMADEI SAND & GRAVEL
- CONTINENTAL VANGUARD
- CROWN CORK & SEAL CO (complaint) (settlement)
- DAUBERT INDUSTRIES, INC
- E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO (complaint) (settlement)
- FRED HEINZELMAN & SONS, INC
- GENERAL METALCRAFT, INC
- GENERAL PRINTING INK DIVISION, SUN CHEM
- GILBERT SPRUANCE CO
- GLIDDEN COATINGS & RESINS CO (complaint) (settlement)
- GLOUCESTER ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SER
- GLOUCESTER, TOWNSHIP OF (complaint) (settlement)
- H.J. HOMAN CO
- HERMAN LIEDTKA, INC
- ICI AMERICAS
- KTK CORP
- MANNINGTON MILLS, INC
- MARISOL, INC
- MARVIN JONAS, INC
- MONSANTO CO
- MOORE PRODUCTS CO
- NATIONAL ROLLING MILLS CO
- NL INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- NVF, INC
- OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLASS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- PAISLEY PRODUCTS
- PARKER CHEMICAL
- POLYREZ DIVISION, ATOCHEM NORTH AMERICA
- PUBLIC SERVICE GAS & ELECTRIC
- ROHM & HAAS CO (complaint) (settlement)
- ROLLINS ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC
- S-J TRANSPORTATION
- SANDOZ PHARMACEUTICALS
- SCM CORP
- SHELL OIL
- SPERRY RAND (UNISYS)
- THIOKOL CORP
- TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS INC (NEWS PUBLIC.)
- UNIVERSAL OIL PRODUCTS (ALLIED SIGNAL)
## Summary

CASE REGARDING THE GEMS LANDFILL SUPERFUND SITE IN GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.  RECOMMENDING THE INITIATION OF A CIVIL ACTION, PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF CERCLA, TO RECOVER PAST COSTS AND TO OBTAIN A DECLARATORY JUDGMENT FOR FUTURE COSTS TO BE INCURRED BY THE U.S. EPA IN TAKING RESPONSE ACTIONS AT THE SITE. THE PROPOSED DEFENDANTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: OWNER OF THE SITE; OPERATORS OF THE SITE; GENERATORS OF HAZ SUBSTANCES WHICH WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE; AND TRANSPORTERS.  ALL OF THE PROPOSED DEFENDANTS WERE NAMED IN A UAO ISSUED BY EPA IN 1988 FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE  REMEDIAL ACTIONS NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT THE PHASE I COMPONENT OF THE REMEDY REQUIRED AT THE SITE PER THE ROD, WHICH WAS ISSUED SEPT. 27, 1988.  THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PHASE II COMPONENT OF THE REMEDY WHICH RELATES TO GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION AT THE SITE WAS NOT REQUIRED BY THE ORDER AND ITS  DESIGN WILL BE UNDERTAKEN IN THE NEAR FUTURE USING STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS.

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