# PICILLO II
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `194`
- **Case Number:** 01-1990-0002
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $4.02M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ROHM & HAAS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REGION I REFERRED A COST RECOVERY ACTION TO DOJ ON OCTOBER   6, 1989 TO COLLECT $3.5 MILLION (PLUS INTEREST AND COSTS)    IN PAST RESPONSE COSTS AT THE PICILLO SITE IN COVENTRY, R.I. DOJ FILED SUIT AGAINST TWO GENERATORS (AMERICAN CYANAMID     COMPANY AND ROHM & HAAS COMPANY) IN R.I. FEDERAL DISTRICT    COURT ON OCTOBER 16, 1989 (CIV.NO. 89-0565) IN ORDER TO      AVOID POSSIBLE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS PROBLEMS IF THE CASE   WERE FILED AFTER OCTOBER 17, 1989.  THE U.S. PREVIOUSLY      RECOVERED $1,681,300 IN SETTLEMENTS.                         THE SITE IS 7.5 ACRES OF A 100-ACRE FORMER PIG FARM IN RURAL CENTRAL R.I. BETWEEN 1979 AND 1982, APPROXIMATELY 10,000     DRUMS OF WASTE, AS WELL AS SOME LIQUID WASTE AND             CONTAMINATED SOIL, WERE REMOVED BY CONTRACTORS UNDER THE     OVERSIGHT OF EPA AND RIDEM. A FUND-LEAD RI/FS INCLUDING      GROUNDWATER STUDIES IS PROCEEDING. FINAL ROD IS EXPECTED     1992.

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