# COMBE FILL SOUTH LANDFILL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1944`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0042
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $25K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COMBE FILL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHERLING, B.D. ESQ. (TRUSTEE, CHAP. 7) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PROPOSES FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION AND APPROPRIATE     CLAIMS IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS FOR RECOVERY OF COSTS IN-   CURRED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION W/ A SUPERFUND   SITE.  THESE COSTS HAVE BEEN INCURRED & ARE PRESENTLY BEING  INCURRED FOR INVESTIGATION & REMEDIATION OF HAZARDOUS SUB-   STANCES AT THE COMBE FILL SOUTH LANDFILL SITE LOCATED IN     CHESTER & WASHINGTON TOWNSHIPS, N.J.  THE PROPOSED ACTIONS   WOULD SEEK RECOVERY OF EPA COSTS PURSUANT TO CERCLA SECTION  107(A), 42 USC 9607.                                           THE REFERRAL PROPOSES THAT AN APPLICATION BE FILED IN THE  U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE S.D.N.Y. (WHICH IS WHERE THE   DEFENDANT FILED FOR CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY) REQUESTING THAT    THE COURT RECOGNIZE THAT W/ RESPECT TO THE COMBE FILL SOUTH  LANDFILL THE U.S. IS ENTITLED TO ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES W/  FIRST PRIORITY STATUS PURSUANT TO 11 USC 503(B)(1)(A) &      507(A)(1) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE, & ORDER THAT THE TRUSTEE   REIMBURSE THE U.S. FOR THESE EXPENSES.  BECAUSE THE FUNDS    REMAINING IN THE BANKRUPT'S ESTATE ARE LIMITED, THERE IS A   NEED TO EXPEDITE REVIEW OF THIS REFERRAL & THE FILING OF THE PROPOSED APPLICATION.                                        NOTICE OF ENTRY OF ORDER: $50,000 SPLIT  WITH NO. COMBE FILL CORPORATION 12/01/86 SIGNED BY JUDGE.

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