EPA signed a Settlement Agreement under which Respondents G.E.L. Realty Corp., and H. LaRosee & Sons, Inc. will perform Superfund cleanup work. The Settlement Agreement, entered into under Sections 104, 106(a), 107 and 122 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (ÂCERCLAÂ) provides for the performance of a removal action by Respondents at 15 Broad Street, Hudson, Massachusetts, with EPA oversight. The response work will include characterization and disposal of hazardous substances stored in a trailer on-site; removal of the trailer; and characterization and disposal of contaminated soils underneath and surrounding the trailer.
The property was formerly a shoe factory, and current operations are primarily as an electroplating job shop. Respondents have a history of compliance issues under EPAÂs RCRA and CWA Programs, beginning in 2010, which led to referral to the EPA Region 1 CERCLA Emergency Response (Removal) Program. The EPA Removal Program issued a CERCLA Notice letter to Respondents in April 2012, and the case team thereafter negotiated the above-referenced Settlement Agreement for performance of the cleanup work.