# GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8157`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.25M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING APPROVAL, SIGNATURE, AND FILING   OF JUDICIAL CONSENT DECREE.  THE CD REQUIRES THE SETTLING    DEFENDANT TO PAY $1,245,832.73 FOR PAST RESPONSE COSTS       INCURRED BY EPA WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL SUM FOR INTEREST ON THAT AMOUNT CALCULATED FROM              JUNE 28, 2000 (THE DATE OF DEMAND) THROUGH THE DATE OF       PAYMENT.                                                     ***                                                          GENERAL MOTORS CORP ( GM ) HAS OPERATED AN ALUMINUM AUTO-    MOBILE PARTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY AT THE GM COMPANY -      CENTRAL FOUNDRY DIVISION SUPERFUND SITE IN MASSENA, ST.      LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK (THE  SITE ) SINCE 1959.  IN CON-  NECTION WITH THE COMPANY'S OPERATIONS, POLYCHLORINATED       BIPHENYLS ( PCBS ) WERE RELEASED AT THE SITE.  IN 1985, EPA  ORDERED GM TO PERFORM A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY   STUDY ( RI/FS ) AT THE SITE TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EX-  TENT OF PCB AND OTHER CONTAMINATION THERE.  UNDER THE ORDER, GM AGREED TO REIMBURSE EPA FOR ITS RESPONSE AND OVERSIGHT    COSTS INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORDER.                 *                                                            BY LETTER DATED JUNE 28, 2000, EPA DEMANDED PAYMENT FROM GM  OF $1,302,148.34 IN SITE-RELATED RESPONSE COSTS PAID BY EPA  BETWEEN MARCH 1994 AND JAN. 1, 2001.  ON JUNE 2, 2000, EPA   PUBLISHED IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER  GUIDANCE ON EXERCISING    CERCLA ENFORCEMENT DISCRETION IN ANT

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