# DSI SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20608`
- **Case Number:** 04-1990-0095
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $741K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALSAY, INC. (complaint)
- ARCO OIL & GAS CO. (complaint)
- ARMARLITE (complaint)
- BECHTEL POWER CORP. (complaint)
- BROWN & ROOT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF MISSISSIPP (complaint)
- CHEVRON PIPELINE CO. (complaint)
- CHEVRON U.S.A., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CROSBY TUGS INC. (complaint)
- CSX TRANSPORTATION INC. (complaint)
- EBASCO SERVICES INC. (complaint)
- G.B. BOOTS SMITH CORP. (complaint)
- GE PLASTICS (complaint)
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP. GEO (complaint)
- GRAHAM ENERGY SERVICES INC. (complaint)
- GULFPORT HARBOR (complaint)
- GULFPORT, MS, CITY OF (complaint)
- INDAL ALUMINUM GULFPORT (complaint)
- INGALLS SHIPBUILDING (complaint) (settlement)
- KEYSTONE SENECA WIRE CLOTH CO. (complaint)
- LAYNE CENTRAL (complaint)
- LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT (complaint)
- MASTER MARINE INC. (complaint)
- MISSISSIPPI POWER CO. (complaint)
- MUNRO PETROLEUM (complaint)
- NEWPARK ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. (complaint)
- PAT PECK NISSAN INC. (complaint)
- PETRO SOURCE RESOURCES (complaint)
- RYAN WALSH, INC (complaint)
- SERMATECH INTERNATIONAL, INC. (complaint)
- SHELL OFFSHORE, INC (complaint)
- SHELL PIPE LINE CORP. (complaint)
- STANDARD FRUIT & STEAMSHIP CO. (complaint)
- SUNBELT CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint)
- TAB WELL SERVICES (complaint)
- TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint)
- TENNECO OIL CO. (complaint)
- TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO. (complaint)
- TEXACO, INC. (complaint)
- TRANSCO EXPLORATION CO. (complaint)
- TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORP. (complaint)
- UNISYS CORPORATION (complaint)
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC. (complaint)
- UNIVERSAL MFG. CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- WASTE OIL COLLECTORS INC. (complaint)
- WELL VAC INC. (complaint)
## Summary

SECTION 107 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE,  COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980, CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.   SECTION 9607, AS AMENDED BY THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND     REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986, IS THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY      UPON WHICH THE RECOVERY OF COSTS FOR APPROXIMATELY $600,000  IN THIS MATTER IS BASED.                                        THE SITE WAS OPERATED BY SEVERAL COMPANIES FOR APPROXI-   MATELY SEVEN YEARS AS A USED OIL RE-REFINERY LOCATED ON THE  BACKWATERS OF BILOXI BAY.  USED OIL AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL     WASTES WERE ACCEPTED AT THE SITE AND RESULTED IN A RECYCLED  PRODUCT THAT EARL DUBOSE (D/B/A DSI, RSI AND/OR DUBOSE OIL   CO.) SOLD AS AN INDUSTRIAL FUEL.  IN MANY INSTANCES, THE     DSI FACILITY PURCHASED AND/OR OBTAINED FREE OF CHARGE USED   OILS AND FLUIDS FROM MANY HUNDREDS OF BUSINESSES IN SEVERAL  STATES AND TRANSPORTED THE MATERIALS TO THE SITE WHERE THEY  WERE RE-REFINED AND/OR DISPOSED.  AS A RESULT OF THE RE-     REFINING PROCESS, WASTE LIQUIDS AND SLUDGES GROSSLY CONTA-   MINATED WITH PAHS WERE GENERATED AND DISPOSED ON-SITE IN     THREE LAGOONS.  THE SITE BECAME CONTAMINATED WITH ACENAPH-   THENE, ACENAPHTHYLENE, ANTHRACENE, PYRENE, BENZO-ANTHRACENE, BENZENE, BIS(2-ETHYL-HEXYL) PHTHALATE, METHYLENE CHLORIDE,   NAPHTHALENE, 2-CHLORONAPHTHALENE, PYRENE, BENZOPYRENE,       TOLUENE, AND XYLENE.  EPA DETERMINED THAT THERE HAD BEEN     A RELEASE OF THESE WASTES CONTAINED IN THE SLUDGES AND       LIQUIDS FROM THE ABANDONED DRUMS, LAGOO

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