# Franklin Smelting Site
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19627`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0270
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PHILADELPIA INDUSTRIAL DRIVE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE REGION HAS APPROVED A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASE AGREEMENT     (PPA) WITH PIDC LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (PIDCLDC) IN   CONNECTION WITH THE FRANKLIN SMELTING SITE.  THE PROPOSED    PPA, WHEN COMBINED WITH A PROPOSED JUDICIAL SETTLEMENT WITH  PIDC FINANCING CORPORATION (PIDCFC) AND THE PENNSYLVANIA     INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (PIDA), WILL FACILITATE     REUSE OF THE SITE.  THE SITE ON SEVERAL PARCELS STRADDLING   CASTOR AVENUE IN PHILADELPHIA.  BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1935 A AND 1998, THE FRANKLIN SMELTING AND REFINING CORPORATION     OPERATED A COPPER SMELTING FACILITY ON THE 10-ACRE PROPERTY. DURING THE COURSE OF OPERATIONS, THE SITE BECAME             CONTAMINATED WITH, AMONTH OTHER THINGS, COPPER, LEAD,        ARSENIC, CADMIUM, AND OTHER HEAVY METALS.  THE FACILITY      CEASED OPERATIONS IN 1998 AMIDST MOUNTING LEGAL AND          FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.  BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY FEBRUARY 1998 AND FEBRUARY 2000, EPA CONDUCTED A CERCLA REMOVAL RESPONSE   ACTION AT THE SITE WHICH INCLUDED, AMONG OTHER ACTIVITIES    SHIPMENT OF COPPER-BEARING FEEDSTOCK MATERIALS, DRUMMED FLUE DUSTS, CIRCUIT SCRAP, AND METALLURGIC MATERIALS OFF-SITE     FOR RECYCLING; EVACATION AND OFF-SITE DISPOSAL OF            CONTAMINATED SOILS; TRANSPORTATION AND OFF-SITE DISPOSAL OF  BAGGED ZINC-OXIDE AND CONTAMINATED WOOD AND DEBRIS;          TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL OF PCB-CONTAINING OILS AND       TRANSFORMER CARCASSES; AND SURFICIAL DECONTAMINATION OF      BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT BY VACUUMING

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