# UNION CORPORATION (METAL BANK OF AMERICA)
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `17728`
- **Case Number:** 03-1997-0231
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC CO (settlement)
- CABOT CORP
- CONSOLIDATED EDISON CO OF NEW YORK INC (settlement)
- DELMARVA POWER AND LIGHT CO
- GE CO
- GOLDBERG, HAROLD
- GOULD ELECTRONICS INC
- JERSEY CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT CO (settlement)
- JOSEPH BERLINER CO
- L. KOBROVSKY AND SONS
- LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO (settlement)
- METAL BANK OF AMERICA
- METROPOLITAN EDISON CO (settlement)
- ORANGE AND ROCKLAND UTILITIES INC (settlement)
- PECO ENERGY (settlement)
- PENNSYLVANIA POWER AND LIGHT CO (settlement)
- PETER CROFT/CROSS
- POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER CO (settlement)
- PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS CO (settlement)
- SCHORSCH, IRVING, G. JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHORSCH, JOHN, B. (complaint) (settlement)
- U.C.O.-M.B.A. CORP (complaint)
- UNION CORP (complaint)
- VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER CO (complaint) (settlement)
- W.F. WIMMER CO
## Summary

THE REGIONAL COUNSEL SENT A PRE-REFERRAL NEGOTIATION         CIVIL LITIGATION REPORT CONCERNING THE METAL BANK            SUPERFUND SITE IN PHILADELPHIA, PA TO THE DEPARTMENT         OF JUSTICE IN ANTICIPATION OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR REMEDIAL      DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION AND COST RECOVERY UNDER               SECTION 106 AND 107 OF CERCLA.  THE PRN RECOMMENDS TWENTY    PARTIES AS DEFENDANTS, INCLUDING U.C.O.-M.B.A CORPORATION.I  TWO FORMER OWNERS, AND SIXTEEN GENERATORS, PRIMARILY         ELECTRIC UTILITES.  SEVEN OF THE SIXTEEN RECOMMENDED         GENERATOR DEDENDANTS ARE BEING OFFERED A DE MINIMIS          SETTLEMENT.  AN ADDITIONAL FOUR GENERATORS EITHER HAVE       NOT BEEN LOCATED OR ARE DEFUNCT BUSINESSES, ALL OF WHICH     WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE CALCULATION OF AN ORPHAN SHARE       FOR PURPOSES OF THE RD/RA NEGOTIATIONS.                         THE SITE IS A FORMER SCRAP METAL AND TRANSFORMER          SALVAGE FACILITY LOCATED IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA OF            NORTHEASTERN PHILADELPHIA, ON THE DELAWARE RIVER. FROM       APPROXIMATELY 1968 OR 1969 UNTIL 1973, TRANSFORMER SALVAGE   OPERATIONS WERE CONDUCTED AT THE SITE.  TRANSFORMER          OIL WAS DRAINED ON A CONCRETE PAD WHICH WAS CONNECTED TO     UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK. SPILLS OF THE OIL AND POSSIBLY     A RUPTURE OF THE UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK CAUSED SOIL        AND GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AT SITE.  THE 1994 RI/FS       REPORT SHOWED THE PRESENCE OF CONTAMINANTS INCLUDING         PCBS IN THE SOIL AND GROUNDWATER, ME

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