# ALCOLAC, INC. ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `6816`
- **Case Number:** 02-1999-0018
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $233K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALCOLAC INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERACE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ATOFINA CHEMICALS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BAYONNE INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- BEAZER EAST INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BECKMAN INSTRUMENTS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BEMIS COMPANY INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CEDER GROVE, THE TOWNSHIP OF (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CLAIROL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CLARIANT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CLOROX COMPANY (THE) (complaint) (settlement)
- CNA HOLDINGS INC FKA HOECHST CLEANESE (complaint) (settlement)
- COMPAC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- COOPER INDUSTRIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CREANOVA INC F/K/A HULS AMERICA INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CROMPTON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CWM CHEMICAL SERVICES LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- DICTAPHONE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (THE) (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- E.R. SQUIBB & SONS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- EDLIN LTD (complaint) (settlement)
- ENGELHARD COPRORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON COPRORATON (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON MOBIL RESEARCH & ENGINEERING CO (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON RESEARCH & ENGINEERING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- FLEXABAR CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- FOOD HAULERS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HALOCARBON PRODUCTS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HONEYWELL INT'L INC FKA ALLIED SIGNAL (complaint) (settlement)
- HOWMET CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL REFUSE REMOVAL (complaint) (settlement)
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- J. SCERBO CO (complaint) (settlement)
- JOHN DUSENBURY CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- K-MART CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- KEUFFEL & ESSER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- KEWANEE INDUSTRIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MARS INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
- MASCO CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- METEM CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERRAL TO DOJ RECOMMENDING COST RECOVERY ACTION PURSUANT TO CERCLA 107(A) WITH RESPECT TO THE PJP LANDFILL SITE       LOCATED IN JERSEY CITY, NJ.  THE U.S. EPA SEEKS THE RECOVERY OF RESPONSE COSTS INSURRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE.      THERE ARE 10 PROPOSED DEFENDANTS. THREE LANDOWNERS, ONE      TRANSPORTER, FIVE GENERATORS AND ONE RELATED ENTITY.         **08/06/99 - REFERRED TO DOJ                                 08/28/2001 - COMPLAINT FILED AND CD LODGED W/ THE COURT.     *          (79 DEFENDANTS NAMED IN COMPLAINT COPY TO DOCKET) *                                                            ORIGINALLY EPA REFERRED 10 PROPOSED DEFENDANTS.  TO CONSERVE RESOURCES, EPA DID NOT DEVELOP EVIDENCE ON ALL 79 SETTLING   DEFS(SD).  DURING SETTLEM'T NEGOTIATIONS, COUNSEL FOR SD RE- QUESTED THAT THE ENTITIES WHO SIGNED A CD WITH THE NJDEP     ALSO BE INCLUDED AS SIGNATORIES TO THE CD W/ THE U.S.  THE   SD SAID THAT ANY INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE TWO SETTLEMENT    DOCUMENTS WOULD IMPEDE SETTLEMENT W/ THE U.S. BECAUSE THE    SETTLEMENTS W/ BOTH GOVERNMENTS WAS BASED ON THE SAME        ALLOCATION OF LIABILITY.  ACCORDINGLY, EPA AND DOJ AGREED TO INCLUDE ALL 79 DEFENDANTS.                                   *                                                            *                                                            09/27/2001 - CD PUBLISHED IN FEDERAL REGISTER.               *                                                            01/16/2002 - CD ENTERED (CCDS SUMBITTE

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