# LEE'S LANE LANDFILL - U.S. V. HARDY ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20313`
- **Case Number:** 04-1988-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.65M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CORNING (complaint) (settlement)
- FORD MOTOR COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- HARDY, BEN (complaint) (settlement)
- HARDY, BEN (CD 3/14/97) (complaint) (settlement)
- HOFGESANG FOUNDATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HOFGESANG FOUNDATION, INC. (CD 3/14/97) (complaint) (settlement)
- J.H. REALTY (complaint) (settlement)
- J.H. REALTY (CD 3/14/97) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CONSENT DECREE NUMBERS:  04-93-C021; 04-93-C022; AND         04-97-C017                                                     THIS REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT A CIVIL ACTION BE FILED        PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE,       COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACE (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. SECTION   9601, AS AMENDED BY THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REAUTHORI-  ZATION ACT OF 1986 (SARA) , P.L. 99-499, FOR REIMBURSEMENT   OF COSTS INCURRED BY THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL         PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) IN RESPONDING TO THE RELEASE AND     THREATENED RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE LEE'S LANE LANDFILL SITE NEAR LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.  THE POTENTIAL      DEFENDANTS INCLUDE THE PERSONS (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED BY   SECTION 101(21) OF CERCLA) WHO:  (1) GENERATED AND TRANS-    PORTED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TO THE SITE OR ARRANGED WITH A   TRANSPORTER FOR TRANSPORT FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUB-     STANCES AT THE SITE; (2) ACCEPTED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND   TRANSPORTED THEM TO THE SITE FOR DISPOSAL; (3) OWNED OR      OPERATED THE SITE; AND (4) PRESENTLY OWN THE SITE.

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