# CONSOLIDATION COAL (SWISSVALE AUTO SURPLUS PARTS C)
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `13587`
- **Case Number:** 03-1989-0751
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.61M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DRAVO CORPORATION (1ST DEFENDANT) (complaint) (settlement)
- LURIA (complaint) (settlement)
- WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY SUIT AGAINST BEN AND FRANCES KALIK, CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY, DRAVO CORPORATION, DU-    QUESNE LIGHT COMPANY, LURIA BROTHERS, M. HARTMAN COMPANY,AND WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION ARISES OUT OF A REMOVAL ACTION,     WHICH COMMENCED IN MAY 1984 AND ENDED IN AUGUST 1986.  EPA'S TSCA INSPECTOR DISCOVERED IMPROPERLY STORED AND MARKED BAR-  RELS OF PCB-CONTAMINATED OIL IN 1980.  FURTHER INVESTIGATION SHOWED WIDESPREAD SOIL CONTAMINATION BY PCBS AND DIOXIN CON- TAMINATION IN THE INCINERATOR BUILDING ON-SITE.  PCB CONTAM- INATION WAS ALSO DISCOVERED ON SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.   ALL CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED, AND ALL DIOXIN-COMTAMINATED   MATERIAL IS STORED ON-SITE IN A FORMER GARAGE BUILDING PEN-  DING A DECISION ABOUT PERMANENT STORAGE OR TREATMENT OF DIO- XIN WASTES.  TOTAL RESPONSE COSTS ARE ABOUT $2.7 MILLION.        A 1980 TSCA INSPECTION REVEALED IMPROPERLY STORED AND    MARKED BARRELS OF PCB-CONTAMINATED OIL, FOR WHICH THE SITE   OPERATOR, BEN KALIK, WAS CITED AND FINED.  UPON FURTHER IN-  VESTIGATION, EPA DISCOVERED HIGH LEVELS OF PCB AND DIOXIN    CONTAMINATION ON-SITE, AND THE FACILTIY WAS REFERRED BY THE  TOXICS AND PESTICIDES BRANCH TO THE HAZARDOUS WASTE BRANCH   TO CONSIDER A REMOVAL OPERATION.  THE REMOVAL STARTED IN     MAY 1984, AND ENDED IN AUGUST 1986 WITH THE SUCCESSFUL RE-   MOVAL OF ALL CONTAMINATED SOIL, AND THE CONTAINMENT OF ALL   DIOXIN WASTES IN A BUILDING ON-SITE.                             DEMAND LETTERS WERE SENT ON FEBRUARY

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