# H.M. Quackenbush, Inc.
> **Judicial** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `158343`
- **Case Number:** 02-2005-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- H.M. Quackenbush, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Request DOJ file a bankruptcy claim against the Defendant, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtor which abandoned its electroplating facility in downtown Herkimer, NY.  DOJ requested to negotiate cost recovery from bankruptcy estate in order to reimburse EPA's estimated removal action costs.

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