# PRENTISS CREOSOTE AND FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20324`
- **Case Number:** 04-1988-0020
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $53K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLEN, EMMETTE (complaint) (settlement)
- LIPSEY, HENRY (complaint) (settlement)
- MURPHY, THOMAS L. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRENTISS CREOSOTE & FOREST PRODUCTS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- PRENTISS CREOSOTE MATERIALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SESSIONS POLK (complaint) (settlement)
- WHITE, WILLIAM (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE CONCERNS A WOOD TREATMENT FACILITY LOCATED IN    JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY, MS, APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES FROM       PRENTISS, MS.  WOOD TREATMENT REPORTEDLY BEGAN AT THIS       LOCATION IN 1957 OR 1960, OR BY ANOTHER REPORT, AS EARLY AS  THE 1940'S, AND CONTINUED THROUGH CHANGES IN OWNERSHIP UNTIL 1986.                                                          THE PROPOSED RCRA CLAIMS CONCERN THE FACILITY'S LOSS OF    INTERIM STATUS ON NOVEMBER 8, 1985, VIOLATIONS ARISING FROM  THE ABANDONMENT OF THE FACILITY IN 1986, AND CORRECTIVE      ACTION NEEDED ONSITE.  FOLLOWING THE ABANDONMENT OF THE      FACILITY, A PHASED REMOVAL ACTION WAS BEGUN BY EPA IN 1987,  GIVING RISE TO COST RECOVERY CLAIMS UNDER CERCLA IN EXCESS   OF $3,500,000.                                                 WHILE IN OPERATION, THE FACILITY INCLUDED A THREE-CELLED   SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROCESS        WASTEWATER AND CONTAINING EPA HAZARDOUS WASTE NUMBER K001.   CONSEQUENTLY, THE FACILITY WAS SUBJECT TO REGULATION UNDER   RCRA, AND A PART A APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED, QUALIFYING THE FACILITY FOR INTERIM STATUS.  HOWEVER, THE FACILITY LOST     INTERIM STATUS ON NOVEMBER 8, 1985, AS A RESULT OF THE       FAILURE TO SUBMIT A PART B APPLICATION AND GROUNDWATER       MONITORING AND FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CERTIFICATIONS.        FROM 1972 UNTIL 1985, THE FACILITY WAS OWNED AND OPERATED  BY PRENTISS CREOSOTE AND FOREST PRODUCTS, INC.  IN AUGUST    1985, THE OFFICERS OF PRENTISS CREOSOT

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