# BECKMAN COULTER, INC., ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `6660`
- **Case Number:** 02-1998-0310
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A&P Tea Company (settlement)
- A.B. See Elevator Company (settlement)
- A.M. Best Company Inc. (settlement)
- AFP Imaging Corporation (settlement)
- Acme Markets, Inc. (settlement)
- Adam Metal Products (settlement)
- Agway Petroleum Corporation (settlement)
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (settlement)
- Alexandria Township (settlement)
- Ameray Corp. (settlement)
- American Thermoplastics Corporation (settlement)
- Andover Borough (settlement)
- Angar Scientific Co, Inc. (Fluid Dynamics) (settlement)
- Ashland Inc. (Drew Chemical) (settlement)
- Ashley's Auto Body Shop (settlement)
- Atlantic Health Systems (Morristown Memorial Hosp) (settlement)
- Automatic Switch Company (settlement)
- Ayers Chevrolet & Oldsmobile Inc. (settlement)
- B&G Foods, Inc. (settlement)
- B.F. Goodrich Company (settlement)
- B.P. Exploration & Oil, Inc. (settlement)
- BASF Corporation (settlement)
- BECKMAN COULTER INC FKA BECKMAN INSTRUME (complaint) (settlement)
- BFI Waste Systems of New Jersey, Inc. (settlement)
- Bedminster Board of Education (settlement)
- Bedminster Township (settlement)
- Bemis Company (settlement)
- Beneficial Management Corporation (settlement)
- Berkeley Heights Township (settlement)
- Berlex Laboratories, Inc. (settlement)
- Bernards Township (settlement)
- Bernardsville Borough (settlement)
- Bertot Industries (settlement)
- Bethlehem Township (settlement)
- Bill Pryer Sanitation (settlement)
- Bisson Motor Sales, Inc. (settlement)
- Black River Veterinary Hospital (settlement)
- Bloomsbury Borough (settlement)
- Boeing Company, The (Boeing Computer Service) (settlement)
- Boonton Township (settlement)
- Borough of Far Hills (settlement)
- Boy Scouts of America (settlement)
- Breen Color Concentrates (settlement)
- Brentwood Gardens (settlement)
- Brentwood Gardens Associates (settlement)
- Brentwood Gardens, Inc. (settlement)
- Bridgewater Township (settlement)
- Bronner Mfg. & Tool Co., Inc. (settlement)
- Brookside Community Club (settlement)
- Browning-Ferris Industries, LLC (settlement)
## Summary

INITIATION OF A CIVIL ACTION PURSUANT TO SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA FOR COST RECOVERY FOR RESPONSE ACTIONS PERFORMED AT THE COMBE FILL SOUTH LANDFILL SUPERFUND SITE, LOCATED IN  WASHINGTON AND CHESTER TOWNSHIPS, MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. 

Partial De Minimis Consent Decree with 58 parties.  The settlement requires a payment re: the Combe Fill South Site, in Chester Township NJ. 

Individual de Minimis party payments to escrow account required within 30 days of Partial CD lodging or Nov. 19, 2003; payment of entire amount from escrow to Superfund required within 45 days entry or Jan. 23, 2004. 

Second settlement entered by the court Oct. 28, 2006. Partial settlement of cost-recovery case. 

Note: this is an  inability to pay  settlement.  All funds recovered have been provided by insurance carriers of the defendants.

Approximately 200 parties remain in the case.  

Partial Consent Decree with approximately 300 parties.  The settlement requires payment to the U.S. and state agency, NJDEP. Payments and purchase of the annuity are required within 60 days of entry.

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