# BURNS, WILLIAM
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `145`
- **Case Number:** 01-1988-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BURNS, WILLIAM (complaint)
- CHITTICK, CLAUDE (complaint)
- GONIC REALTY TRUST, RAYMOND CROWLEY, (complaint)
## Summary

THIS CASE CONCERNS A 107 CERCLA COST RECOVERY ACTION      AGAINST VARIOUS RESPONSIBLE PARTIES FOR THE GONIC DRUM DUMPS LOCATED IN GONIC, NEW HAMPSHIRE.  THE GONIC DRUM DUMPS SITE  ACTUALLY CONSISTS OF TWO SEPARATE PROPERTIES LOCATED APPROX- IMATELY 1/2 MILE FROM EACH OTHER.  ON ONE PROPERTY, MR.      WILLIAM BURNS OPERATED A SYNTHETIC SHOE PARTS MANUFACTURING  COMPANY KNOWN AS URETHANE MOLDED PRODUCTS,INC.(UMP). WHILE   OPERARTING THE UMP COMPANY, MR. BURNS GENERATED AND ABANDON- ED 53 DRUMS CONTAINING HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS, POSING AN IMMEDI ATE THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH. THE OWNER OF THE UMP PROPERTY AT THE TIME OF DISPOSAL WAS MR BARRY LAZARO WHO WAS LEASING THE PREMISES TO MR. BURNS.  MR. LAZARO THEN  SOLD THE PROPERTY TO MR. CLAUDE S. CHITTICK WHILE THE DRUMS  WERE STILL ON THE PREMISES.  EPA IS NOW SEEKING A JUDICIAL   ORDER FINDING WILLIAM BURNS LIABLE FOR $61,320.14 EXPENDED   IN THE REMOVAL ACTION CONDUCTED ON THE UMP PROPERTY.            ON ANOTHER PROPERTY, MR. BURNS OPERATED ANOTHER COMPANY   (POLYTHANE, INC.), WHERE HE ABANDONED APPROXIMATELY 57 DRUMS CONTAINING HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.  EPA CONDUCTED A REMOVAL     ACTION AT THIS SITE AT A COST OF $63,124.19.  EPA IS NOW     SEEKING TO RECOVER THIS AMOUNT FROM MR. BURNS AND FROM THE   GONIC REALTY TRUST, WHICH WAS THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY AT   THE TIME OF DISPOSAL.

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