# SAN GABRIEL / BALDWIN PARK - PPA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53859`
- **Case Number:** 09-2001-0152
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $325K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER AGREEMENT WITH NORTHROP      GRUMAN, WHICH PLANS TO ACQUIRE THE BUSINESS AND ASSETS OF    AEROJET IN AZUSA, CALIF., INCLUDING ITS 70-ACRE ELECTRONICS  PLANT LOCATED IN THE BALDWIN PARK OPERABLE UNIT OF THE       SAN GABRIEL VALLEY SUPERFUND SITE. THE AEROJET PROPERTY      IS A MAJOR SOURCE OF CONTAMINATION TO THE GROUNDWATER. IN    EXCHANGE FOR GETTING A COVENANT NOT TO SUE, NORTHROP GRUMMAN IS REQUIRED TO PAY $325,000 CONSIDERATION (PER THE PPA),     PLUS AEROJET IS REQUIRED TO PAY $9 MILLION TO THE SUPERFUND  SPECIAL ACCOUNT AND $40 MILLION TO A THIRD-PARTY ESCROW      ACCOUNT, AND AEROJET'S PARENT COMPANY, GENCORP, IS REQUIRED  TO GUARANTEE THE PERFORMANCE OF AEROJET'S CLEANUP            OBLIGATIONS UP TO $25 MILLION.

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