# TANG REALTY, ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `6544`
- **Case Number:** 02-1998-0193
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.04M
- **Compliance action $:** $19.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIEDSIGNAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMR Corporation/American Airlines (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Alcoa Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BECTON DICKINSON & CO (complaint) (settlement)
- BENJAMIN MOORE & CO (complaint) (settlement)
- BORDEN INC (complaint) (settlement)
- Beazer East, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Bristol Myers Squibb Company (complaint) (settlement)
- CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (complaint) (settlement)
- CON-LUX COATINGS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CURTIS-WRIGHT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- Chevron Environmental Management Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- DOW CHEMICAL CO (THE) (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO (complaint) (settlement)
- ELF ATOCHEM (NOT IN THE SETTLEMENT) (complaint)
- EXXON CHEMICAL CO (AMERICAS SETTLEMENT) (complaint) (settlement)
- Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Company (complaint) (settlement)
- Engelhard Corporation
- Fedders Corporation
- Fischer Price (complaint) (settlement)
- Ford Motor Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- Foster Wheeler Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- General Electric Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- General Motors Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Gulton Industries (complaint) (settlement)
- Henkel Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Hercules, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Hoechst Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- International Business Machine Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- International Flavors & Fragrances (complaint) (settlement)
- Johnson & Johnson (complaint) (settlement)
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Kinder Morgan Liquid Terminals LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Lucent Technologies (complaint) (settlement)
- Mack Trucks, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Mallinckrodt Baker Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Mattel, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
- Maxus Energy Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Mayco Oil & Chemical (complaint) (settlement)
- Merck & Co. (complaint) (settlement)
- Mobil Business Resources Corp. (complaint) (settlement)
- Morton International (complaint) (settlement)
- National Starch & Chemical Co. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RECOMMENDS THE INITIATION OF REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION (RD/RA) NEGOTIATIONS W/ PRPS REGARDING THE CHEMSOL, INC. SUPERFUND SITE, LOCATED IN PISCATAWAY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.   THE PRPS ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING AN INTERIM REMEDY AT THIS SITE UNDER A UAO ISSUED BY EPA IN 1992 (#02-92-0106). A SETTLEMENT BY JUDICIAL CD WILL BE SOUGHT W/ THESE PRPS FOR THE NEXT OPERABLE UNIT.  A PROPOSED PLAN WAS ISSUED IN AUG. 1997. THE SCOPE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS WILL INCLUDE PERFORMANCE OF THE RD/RA BY THE PRPS & THE RECOVERY OF PASTS COSTS INCURRED BY EPA FOR A RI/FS AND REMOVAL ACTION CONDUCTED BY EPA AT THE SITE.

A Consent decree, entered by the Court on December 4, 2008, amends the decree entered on January 26, 2000 by adding additional parties.

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