# GORDON STAFFORD INC
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `15097`
- **Case Number:** 03-1990-0622
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $300K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARCO COAL CORPORATION (complaint)
- GORDAN STAFFORD, INC. (complaint)
- MARION ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- POWELL, GARY L. (complaint) (settlement)
- STAFFORD, HARRY G. (complaint)
## Summary

THIS IS A REFERRAL FOR RECOUPMENT OF APPROXIMATELY       $214,193.88 SPENT ON RESPONSE MEASURES UNDERTAKEN AT THE     HARRISON COUNTY PCB SPELL SITE IN HARRISON COUNTY, WEST      VIRGINIA, IT IS A PRIVATE PROPERTY THAT WAS USED FOR THE     ILLEGAL DISPOSAL OF ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS WHERE OIL WAS    CONTAMINATED WITH PCB.  ONE OF THE PROPOSED DEFENDENTS HELD  AN AUCTION WHERE IT SOLD MINING EQUIPMENT; ANOTHER ONE OF    THE RECOMMENDED DEFENDANTS ATTENDED THE AUCTION AND BOUGHT   AMONG OTHER THINGS THE TRANSFORMERS FOUND AT THE SITE WHICH  HE HAD SOLD TO A THIRD PARTY, ALSO INCLUDED AS RECOMMENDED   DEFENDANTS.  THE LIABILITY AGAINST THE ORIGINAL SALE IS      BASED ON THE ALLEGATION THAT THE SALE WAS IN FACT AN ARRANGE MENT FOR DISPOSAL OF THE CONTAMINATED TRANSFORMERS.

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