# PALMERTON ZINC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18386`
- **Case Number:** 03-1999-0015
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $11.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HORSEHEAD INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- HORSEHEAD RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- TCI PACIFIC COMMUNICATIONS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (UAO) WAS ISSUED TO FOUR DEFENDANTS:  HORSEHEAD INDUSTRIES, INC.; HORSEHEAD RESOURCE  DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INC.; VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.; AND    TCI PACIFIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.  THE UAO REQUIRES THE       RESPONDENTS TO IMPLEMENT THE REMAINING PORTION OF THE        SELECTED REMEDY SET FORTH IN THE OPERABLE UNIT ONE (OU#1)    RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) FOR THE SITE SIGNED ON SEPTEMBER    4, 1987. THE OU#1 ROD REQUIRES REVEGATION OF DEFOLIATED      AREAS OF BLUE MOUNTAIN.  EPA ENTERED INTO A CONSENT DECREE   (CD) WITH ZINC CORPORATION OF AMERICA (ZCA), A DIVISION OF   HORSEHEAD INDUSTRIES, INC., FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ROD    IN 1988.  ZCA REVEGETATED APPROXIMATELY 1,000 ACRES OF BLUE  MOUNTAIN, BUT HAS REFUSED TO COMPLETE THE WORK UNDER THE CD. APPROXIMATELY 1,000 ACRES REMAIN TO BE REVEGETATED.

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