U.S. v. AKZO NOBEL COATINGS, INC.

No. 95-71470.

990 F.Supp. 897 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. AKZO NOBEL COATINGS, INC., The Dow Chemical Company, Gage Products Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

January 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Special Master, Robert W. Dana, Judicial Arbiter Group, Inc., Denver, CO, David G. Hetzel, Ronald W. Zdrojeski, LeBouf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., Hartford, CT, Paul S. Lewandowski, Butzel Long, Detroit, MI, Thomas M. Woods, Freeman, McKenrie, Mt. Clemens, MI, for Plaintiff.

Ruben Acosta, David H. Fink, Fink Zausmer, P.C., Farmington Hills, MI, for Waste Management Inc. & Chemical Waste Mgmt.

Phil Adkinson, Adkinson & Need, Bloomfield, MI, for Village of Leonard.

Richard J. Bahls, Bahls & Shamblin, Lapeer, MI, for Village of Metamora.

Leonard K. Berman, Hainer Demorest & Berman, P.C., Troy, MI, for Bridgestone/Firestone.

Karl S. Bourdeau, Robert Brager, Susan H. Ephron, Bevendge & Diamond, Washington, DC, Ulysses S. Boykin, Matthew R. Halpin, Lewis Clay & Munday, Detroit, MI, for General Electric.

Kathryn A. Buckner, Seyburn Kahn Ginn Bess Deitch & Serlin P.C., Southfield, MI, for Metal Cote Chemical, Michlin Chemical, Paint Work, Inc. & Dunlop Collision.

David J. Carney, William E. Coughlin, Kevin P. Hallquist, Calfee Halter & Griswold, Cleveland, OH, for Dunbarton Corp.

Brian Clark, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Oak Brook, IL, George F. Curran, III, Stephen E. Handleman, Cummings McClorey Davis & Acho P.C., Farmington Hills, MI, for Sawicki & Sons.

Charles M. Denton, Varnum Riddering Schmidt & Howlett, L.L.P., Grand Rapids, MI, for Village of Metamora, Addison Township, Imlay City, Lapeer County Rd Commission, Lapeer Vocational Technical School, Oxford Township, Village of Dryden & Village of Oxford.

Brian D. Devlin, Asst. Attorney General, MI Dept of Attorney General, Environmental Protection Div., Lansing, MI, Frederick J. Dindoffer, Bodman Longley & Dahling, L.L.P., Detroit, MI, for Metamora Industries, Inc., Abitbi-Price Corp.

Donald R. Dixon, Ferndale, MI, Doug A. Donnell, Mika Myers Beckett & Jones, Grand Rapids, MI, for Gage Products.

Christopher J. Dunsky, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, MI, for Trayco, Inc., Textron, Inc.

Michael S. Elder, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Albany, NY, Gary S. Eller, Boothman Hebert & Eller, Detroit, MI, Thomas J. Fayfer, Fausone Taylor Bohn L.L.P., Northville, MI, for Stricker Paint.

William D. Gilbride, Jr., Abbott Nicholson Quilter, Essahki & Youngblood, Detroit, MI, Carol W. Grombala, Kohl Secrest Wardle Lynch Clark & Hampton, Farmington Hills, MI, for Precision Coatings.

Michael J. Hainer, Mark S. Demorest, Hainer & Demorest, Troy, MI, Christopher A. Hajek, Gault Davidson, Flint, MI, for Van Etten Disposal.

Brian Herschfus, Wood Kull Herschfus Lay & Kull, Metro Bank Office Ctr, Farmington Hills, MI, for American Jetway.

Leslie Hulse, General Electric, Corporate Environmental Programs, Albany, NY, for General Electric.

Howard E. Jarvis, Woolf McClane Bright Allen & Carpenter, Knoxville, TN, for Firestone Tire.

Nancy L. Kahn, Foster Swift Collins & Smith P.C., Farmington Hills, MI, for Frankel Metal.

Michael Kay, Dow Chemical Company, Legal Department, Midland, MI, for Dow Chemical.

Daniel P. King, Pedersen Keenan King Wachseberg & Andrzejak P.C., Farmington Hills, MI for DeSoto, Argo Paint & Chemical, & Argus Paint Co.

John R. LaParl, Jr., Smith LaParl & Mequio, P.C., Portage, MI, for Township of Metamora.

Gary R. Letcher, Arthur A. Schulcz, Sr., The Harker Firm, Washington, DC, for Akzo Nobel Coatings.

Jeffrey J. Mayer, Raymond & Prokop, P.C., Southfield, MI, for BF Goodrich.

Susan E. Morrison, VanderKloot, Rentrop, Martin, Haynes & Morrison, P.C., Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Oxford Township.

Michael J. Nolan, Kohl Harris & Peters, P.C., Metamora, MI, for Bradford Tool & Die and Bushman Disposal.

Dustin P. Ordway, Dickinson Wright Moon Van Dusen & Freeman, Grand Rapids, MI, for Arkwright, Inc.

Bernard P. Paige, Patrick J. Ennis, Colombo & Colombo, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Dow Chemical.

Neil T. Peters, Kohl Harris & Peters, P.C., Metamora, MI, for Metamora Township.

Donald H. Poniatwoski, Nowak, Poniatowski & Morgan, P.C., Lapeer, MI, for Lapeer County Press.

Scott R. Powell, Jonathan P. Gerisch, Powell & Gerisch Ann Arbor, MI, Mary S. Rigdon, U.S. Attorney's Office, Detroit, MI, Jamie Schiff, Textron, Inc., Providence, RI, for Textron,Inc./Ex-Cell-O.

Devin S. Schindler, Warner Norcross & Judd L.L.P., Grand Rapids, MI, for Standard Detroit Paint.

Eugene E. Smany, Valerie P. Simmons, John D. Tully, Warmer, Norcross & Judd, Grand Rapids, MI, James R. Temple, Farmington Hills, MI, for Three R Industries, Inc.

Hugh Thomas, Francis J. Newton, Jr., Berry Moorman King & Hudson, Detroit, MI, for Acme Precision Products.

L. Nicholas Treinen, Lake Orion, MI, for Mantex Corporation.

Fred R. Wagner, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, DC, for Dow Chemical.

Thomas M. Woods, Freeman McKenzie, Mt. Clemens, MI, Robert Young, King Young & Billmeyer, Allen Park, MI, Sherwin E. Zamler, Susan Sadler, Dawanda Mann Mulcahy & Sadler, P.L.C., Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Seaman Industries & Cook Paint & Varnish.

Frances M. Zizila, Gregory L. Sukys, Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC.


OPINION and ORDER

FEIKENS, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff United States of America (plaintiff) initiated this action based on the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Act (CERCLA)1 to recover costs incurred by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the environmental cleanup of a landfill located in Lapeer County, Michigan. Plaintiff and a number of potentially responsible...

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