# FIORAVANTI, WILLIAM, ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `15323`
- **Case Number:** 03-1991-0204
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $131K
- **Cost recovery:** $767K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FIORAVANTI, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
- KATY INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LOEWENSTEIN, HERMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- LOSTNNO, VINCENT (complaint)
- TRANS-CONTINENTAL LEATHERS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN ACTION TO ENFORCE 104(E) REPORTS SENT TO      THE DEFENDANTS AS PART OF COST RECOVERY ACTIVITIES.              CASE AMENDED TO INCLUDE 107A COUNT ORIGINALLY ENTERED    AS CASE #03-91-0360, WHICH SEEKS TO RECOVER                  $1,201,458.20 IN REMOVAL COSTS AT THE AMERICAN STREET        TANNERY SITE IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.  THE REMOVAL ACTION        BEGAN IN JULY 1987 AND THE ACTION REMOVED 123 55-GALLON      DRUMS OF HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS; 92,500 GALLONS        OF BULKED HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS AND 23 ROLL-OFF BOXES.           LEATHER SHAVINGS FROM CHROME TANNED LEATHER WERE ALSO        REMOVED.  THIS INITIAL REMOVAL WAS COMPLETED ON              JULY 14, 1988.                                                  FROM JULY 2 TO JULY 6, 1990, EPA CONDUCTED A              SECOND REMOVAL AT THE SITE REMOVING TRANSFORMERS             CONTAINING PCBS, TWO OF WHICH HAD BEEN VANDALIZED AND        WERE LEAKING PCBS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.   IN TOTAL           EPA REMOVED ALL SIX TRANSFORMERS, 15 DRUMS OF FLOOR          ABSORBENT, WASH KEROSENE, TRANSFORMER OIL, MICA              CONTENTS AND CONCRETE.                                       OWNERS/OPERATORS:                                                           1. CUSTOM LEATHER SERVICES, INC,( CLS )                         OWNER, 1981 TO 1990; OPERATOR, 1981                          TO 1986;                                                  2.  CHARLES EISENFELDER, OPERATOR                                AS PRESIDENT OF CLS; 

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