EPA v. EXXON MOBILE CORPORATION ET AL (METRO CONTAINER CORPORATION SITE)

Case summary

The Region approved a CERCLA ? 104/107/122 Administrative Agreement under which twelve private entities (including, among others, Exxon Mobil Corporation; BP Products North America Inc.; DuPont; Chevron; Rohm & Haas; and Stauffer Management Company) will perform a removal response action selected by EPA at the Metro Container Corporation Site in Trainer, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Site) and reimburse EPA?s oversight costs. The Site consists of (1) approximately 11 acres of land currently owned by Trainer Industries, LLC where for nearly a century there had been the manufacture of, among other things, machine oils, paraffin wax, and carbon disulfide, as well as drum reclamation and recycling activities (Metro Property), and (2) all locations to which hazardous substances or pollutants and contaminants have migrated from the Metro Property. The Site was placed on the NPL in March 2012; Under the settlement, the parties will perform an RI/FS at all areas of the Site except the Delaware River and will pay EPA's oversight costs. EPA agreed to exclude the Delaware River from the scope of the settlement after the parties advised EPA that they would not currently agree to do study work in the River. The Settlement makes clear that EPA reserves all rights to request or require (via another enforcement document that the parties extend the study into the Delaware River or to perform such work itself.

Defendants (12)

• VEOLIA ES TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC (FOR ITESELF ANNamed in settlement
• TUNNELL BARREL AND DRUM CO., INC.Named in settlement
• ROHM AND HAAS COMPANYNamed in settlement
• SUPERFUND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS A SERIES OF EVERGRNamed in settlement
• CHEVRON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, FOR ITSENamed in settlement
• E. I. Du PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYNamed in settlement
• ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANYNamed in settlement
• BP LUBRICANTS USA INC.Named in settlement
• BP PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA, INC.Named in settlement
• EXXON MOBIL OIL CORPORATIONNamed in settlement
• STAUFFER MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC AS LITIGATION AGENamed in settlement
• EXXON MOBILE CORPORATIONNamed in settlement

Facilities (2)

• METRO CONTAINER CORP

  2ND & PRICE ST, TRAINER, PA, 19061

  Registry ID: 110007762340

• METRO CONTAINER CORP

  200 PRICE ST, TRAINER, PA, 19061

  Registry ID: 110007762340

Statutes cited

• CERCLA 122A — Agreement to Perform Work Under 104B

Enforcement conclusions (1)

• EXXON MOBILE CORPORATION ET AL (METRO CONTAINER CORPORATION SITE)entered 2015-08-28

  Primary law: CERCLA

Timeline (2 milestones)

• 2015-08-28Final Order Issued
• 2015-10-06Enforcement Action Data Entered