# BYRON BARREL AND DRUM SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1947`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0045
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.71M
- **Compliance action $:** $6.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FREEMAN, DARRELL L. JR (complaint) (settlement)
- FREEMAN, DARRELL L. JR. (3RD INSTRUMENT) (settlement)
- GARLOCK INC (complaint) (settlement)
- UHL, WILLIAM SR (complaint) (settlement)
- UNISYS CORP
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 106(B) AND     107(A) & (C) OF CERCLA, AGAINST MR. DARRELL L. FREEMAN, JR.  TO RECOVER THE COSTS WHICH HAVE BEEN INCURRED, & WILL BE IN- CURRED BY THE GOV'T IN RESPONSE TO THE RELEASE & THREATENED  RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE BYRON BARREL AND    DRUM DUMP & SEEKING CIVIL PENALTIES & PUNITIVE TREBLE DAMA-  GES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE W/ AN ADMINISTRATIVE CERCLA 106 ORDER.   MR. FREEMAN OWNS THE BYRON BARREL & DRUM DUMP IN BYRON,    N.Y.  THE SITE IS LISTED ON THE CERCLA NATIONAL PRIORITIES   LIST.  IT WAS USED FOR THE DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTES, &   RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE SITE HAVE BEEN     DOCUMENTED.  AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER UNDER CERCLA 106 WAS    ISSUED TO FREEMAN REQUIRING HIM TO PERFORM A REMOVAL ACTION  AT THE SITE; HE FAILED TO COMPLY W/IN THE SPECIFIED PERIOD   OF TIME.  EPA THEREFORE IMPLEMENTED THE REMOVAL ACTION.        PROPOSED RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT INCLUDES COST RECOVERY OF ALL GOVERNMENTAL EXPENDITURES TO DATE; DECLARATORY RELIEF AS TO  LIABILITY FOR FUTURE COSTS; CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING    EPA'S ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER; PUNITIVE TREBLE DAMAGES FOR      FREEMAN'S FAILURE TO COMPLY W/ THAT ORDER.                   *                                                            COPY OF COMPLAINT ON FILE 6/19/89.  NAME OF THE COMPLAINT    DARRELL L. FREEMAN, JR.                                      *                                                            RD/RA PARTIAL CD ENTERED BY THE COURT 

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