Judge OKs Accord to Clean Up Landfill
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U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer on Monday approved an agreement that calls for 113 companies and two government agencies to spend more than $67 million to help clean up the highly toxic Operating Industries Inc. landfill in Monterey Park.
In settling a civil action filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health Services, companies that shipped hazardous waste to the dump agreed to pay $33 million in cash and provide $34 million worth of cleanup work.
Sixty companies and the Southern California Rapid Transit District, one of the agencies that dumped waste at the site, agreed to hire contractors to monitor the landfill.
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