[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: TI settles with U.S. over Shpack Landfill, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TI enters $15M consent decree in Massachusetts radiation case D

by Jeff Bounds
Dallas Business Journal (TX)
November 21, 2012

Texas Instruments Inc. has agreed to pay $15 million to the U.S. Army  
Corps of Engineers in the pollution of a Massachusetts site with  
radioactive waste.

The payment was disclosed in a consent decree between the Dallas chip  
maker and the U.S. Justice Department of Justice filed late Wednesday  
in federal district court in Massachusetts.

TI did not admit liability in the decree, which covers the company's  
alleged role in the pollution of the site in and near Attleboro,  
Mass., between roughly 1959 and 1981.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/11/21/ti-enters-15m- 
consent-decree-in-mass.html

For background, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/ 
f52fa5c31fa8f5c885256adc0050b631/58e94c43d64b4ff88525691f0063f6f5! 
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