U.S. v. BASF-INMONT CORP.

Civ. A. No. 91-CV-40320-FL.

819 F.Supp. 601 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. BASF-INMONT CORPORATION, Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Sea Ray Boats, Inc., Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., Sherwin-Williams Company, Grow Group, Inc., Mayco Plastics, Inc., Bundy Corporation, Fillmore Thomas & Co., Inc., Kelsey-Hayes Company, Metal Alloys Corporation, Met-L-Aid, Incorporated, Spencer Oil Company, The Stroh Brewery Company, White Color Card Company, Consumers Power Company, Allied-Signal Inc., Hoover Universal, Inc., Pratt & Lambert Inc., Petschke Manufacturing Company, Inc., Henkel Corporation, Electro-Cote Chemical Co., Inc., Doehler-Jarvis Limited Partnership, Mercury Pain Company, Lapeer Metal Products Company, Cincinnati Milacron Inc., PPG Industries, Inc., Foamseal, Inc., Graco Inc., Laidlaw Waste Systems Inc., BFI of North Metro, Inc., Richfield Disposal, Inc., and Olsonite Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D., at Flint.

March 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geneva S. Halliday, Asst. U.S. Atty., Detroit MI, Richard B. Stewart, Barry M. Hartman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Div., Washington DC, for U.S.

Susan E. Morrison, Siudara, Rentrop, Martin & Morrison, Bloomfield Hills MI.

Thomas M. Woods, Cross Wrock, Detroit MI.

Mark D. Edie, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn MI.

David L. Tripp, Dykema Gossett, Detroit MI.

David P. Flynn, Phillips, Lytle, Buffalo NY.

Leonard F. Charla, Butzel Long, Detroit MI.

Allen Danzig, The Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland OH.

Michael L. Miller, Browning-Ferris Services, Inc., Houston TX.

BASF-Inmont, c/o Ronald Zdrojeski, Hebb & Gitlin, Hartford CT.

Thomas Wilczak, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Detroit MI.

Kittredge R. Klapp, Neithercut, Klapp, Dillard, Banas & Grossman, Flint MI.

John P. Dickey, Consumers Power Co., Jackson MI.

Kenneth Lamotte, Greenfield Partners, Birmingham MI.

Jay A. Herbst, Driggers, Schultz, Herbst & Patterson, Troy MI.

Edward L. Haroutunian, Mark E. Wilson, Rubenstein, Isaacs, Haroutunian & Sobol, Southfield MI.

Susan J. Sadler, Clark, Klein & Beaumont, Detroit MI.

Eric M. Dessen, NL Industries, New York City.

Electro-Cote Chemical Co., William DiBiasi, Taylor MI.

Sharon R. O'Keefe, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit MI.

William R. Cottick, Laidlaw Waste Systems, Associate Gen. Counsel, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Juliette Richter, c/o Henkel Corp., Amchem Products Inc., Gulf Mills PA.

Gregory A. Fontaine, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis MN.

James P. Davey, Kemp, Klein, Umphrey & Endelman, P.C., Troy MI.

Philip J. Anderson, Blomberg, Anderson & Moore, Mt. Clemens MI.

Donald W. Smith, Pratt & Lambert, Buffalo NY.

James A. Thompson, Jr., Pepe & Hazard, Hartford CT.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEWBLATT, District Judge.

Pending before the Court in this CERCLA case1 are the following motions: (1) Motion to Approve the Consent Decree; (2) Motion by Citizens United to Intervene. The Consent Decree is APPROVED, and the Motion to Intervene is DENIED.

BACKGROUND

The Metamora Landfill Site in Lapeer County, Michigan is...

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