# FCX - STATESVILLE, OU 1 (REFERRAL)
> **Judicial** · FY2004 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `115182`
- **Case Number:** 04-2004-9024
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BEAUNIT CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- BEAUNIT FABRICS CORP. (complaint)
- EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

4/1/04 - REFERRAL SENT TO DOJ.  COST RECOVERY ACTION FOR PAST COSTS AT OU-1 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,845,053.14.  ALL PRPs AS PAST OWNERS AND OPERATORS GENERATING VOCs CONTAMINATING GROUNDWATER AT THE SITE.

El Paso Natural Gas Co. entered into Consent Decree with the United States and the State of North Carolina to pay US $1.5 million and pay NC $110,000 for costs incurred and to be incurred at operable units 1 and 2  & for the Beaunit CD:   Beaunit Corporation entered into a Consent Decree with the United States to pay the United States $846.54 resolving its liability at the FCX-Statesville Site based on its limited ability to pay.

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