# PRINTED CIRCUITS INC. SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `10891`
- **Case Number:** 03-1986-0727
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $275K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CIFLEX SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDRICKSON, J. (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDRICKSON, M. (complaint) (settlement)
- LEEDS & NORTHROP CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCAN DATA SALES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN ACTION UNDER CERCLA SEC 107, 42 USC SEC 9607   TO RECOVER APPROXIMATELY $250,000 FROM PRINTED CIRCUITS,INC. (PCI) & MILLARD & JUDITH B. HENDRICKSON, FOR COSTS INCURRED  BY EPA IN CONDUCTING A REMOVAL ACTION. PCI & THE HENDYS HAD  BEEN ORDERED TO CONDUCT THE REMOVAL ACTION PURSUANT TO SEC   106 OF CERCLA, 42 USC SEC 9606, BUT THEY FAILED TO DO SO.       ON 2/28/85, AN ANONYMOUS CALLER REPORTED ON-GOING DUMPING AT THE PCI FACILITY IN LEVITTOWN, PA. PCI MANUFACTURES       PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS FOR THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY & PRO-   DUCES WASTES WHICH TYPICALLY CONSIST OF SOLVENTS, ACIDS,     BASES & METALS. INVESTIGATION & SAMPLING BY EPA REVEALED     HIGH LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS IN THE SOIL AROUND THE SITE.     DIRECT EXPOSURE TO HEAVY METALS SUCH AS THOSE FOUND AT PCI   MAY CAUSE A VARIETY OF ILLNESS IN HUMANS & SUCH METALS ARE   BIOACCUMULATIVE. APPROX. 150 DRUMS OF UNKNOWN CONTENTS, SOME MARKED  CORROSIVE  OR  FLAMMABLE , WERE STORED ON THE SITE   IN AN UNSECURE MANNER.                                          WHEN ADVISED OF THE CONTAMINATION ON THE PROPERTY, THE    COMPANY'S VICE PRESDIDENT AGREED TO INSTALL A FENCE AROUND T HE AREA IN WHICH THE DRUMS WERE STORED, BUT REFUSED TO CLEAN UP THE SOIL CONTAMINATION AT THE SITE. PCI DID ARRANGE FOR   REMOVAL OF THE DRUMS.                                           EPA APPROVED THE EXPENDITURE OF SUPERFUND MONEY ON 5/8/85 TO CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE. ON 5/13/ 85 AN ORDER ISSUED PURSUANT TO SEC 106 

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