# COMBE FILL NORTH LANDFILL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1945`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0043
- **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 REFERRAL PROPOSES THE FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION & AP-  PROPRIATE CLAIMS IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS FOR RECOVERY OF   COSTS INCURRED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION W/ A     SUPERFUND SITE.  THESE COSTS HAVE BEEN INCURRED AND ARE      PRESENTLY BEING INCURRED FOR INVESTIGATION & REMEDIATION OF  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE COMBE FILL NORTH LANDFILL SITE   LOCATED IN MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP, N.J.  THE PROPOSED ACTIONS  WOULD SEEK RECOVERY OF OUR 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   BANKRUPT DEFENDANT FILED FOR CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY) REQUEST-  ING THAT THE COURT RECOGNIZE THAT W/ RESPECT TO THE COMBE    FILL NORTH LANDFILL THE U.S. IS ENTITLED TO ADMINISTRATIVE   EXPENSES WITH FIRST PRIORITY STATUS PURSUANT TO 11 U.S.C.    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 ORDER: CASE NO. 81 B 12024(BRL); PURSANT ORDERED   TO 11 U.S.C. 554 (A) AUTHORIZING THE ABANDONMENT OF DEBTOR   ACCOUNTING AND DUMPING RECORDS AND THE AFFIDAVIT IN          OPPOSITION TO THE APPLICATION FOR ABANDONMENT, BY ANDESON,   RUSSELL, KILL & OLICK, P.C., ATTORNEYS

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