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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Settlement Clears Way for Cleanup of Massachusetts Superfund Site

MarketWatch Press Release
December 9, 2008

WASHINGTON, Dec 09, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A 
multi-party settlement involving the federal government will ensure that 
cleanup efforts proceed at the Shpack Landfill Superfund site in the 
towns of Norton and Attleboro, Mass., the Justice Department and the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.

The defendants signing the agreement include: the City of Attleboro, 
Mass.; Avnet Inc.; Bank of America N.A. (Trustee u/w of Lloyd G. 
Balfour); BASF Catalysts LLC (formerly known as Engelhard Corporation); 
Chevron Environmental Management Company (for itself and on behalf of 
Kewanee Industries Inc.); ConocoPhillips Co.; Handy & Harman; 
International Paper Co.; KIK Custom Products, Inc. (formerly known as 
CCL Custom Manufacturing Inc.); Town of Norton, Mass.; Swank Inc.; 
Teknor Apex Co.; Texas Instruments Inc.; and Waste Management of 
Massachusetts Inc.

Under terms of a consent decree lodged in the U.S. District Court in 
Boston, the defendants will perform the remainder of the site-wide 
cleanup of chemical wastes and other contaminants. The work is estimated 
to cost $29 million.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Settlement-Clears-Way-Cleanup-Massachusetts/story.aspx?guid=%7B177992B5-8826-44DF-B2EE-744D8958E268%7D

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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