# SONORA / CARLIE MIDDLETON SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20779`
- **Case Number:** 04-1993-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.99M
- **Compliance action $:** $2.45M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- A&E METALS (complaint) (settlement)
- ACE SALVAGE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- AT&T  CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BICC CABLES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BIG SANDY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- BLUE GRASS RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- CSX TRANSPORATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CUMBERLAND VALLEY ELECTRIC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CUMBERLAND VALLEY RURAL ELECTRIC COOP (complaint) (settlement)
- FARMERS RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- FELL IRON & METAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- FELLONNEAU, JOHN M., JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- FLEMING-MASON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- FMC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- FOX CREEK RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL  ELECTRIC CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- GRAYSON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- HARRISON COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATI (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDERSON UNION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- HENDERSON UNION RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATI (complaint) (settlement)
- HICKMAN-FULTON COUNTIES RURAL ELECTRIC (complaint) (settlement)
- INTER-COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSON COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIV (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSON ENERGY COOPERATIVE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- JACKSON PURCHASE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- K&R  CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- K&R CORPORATION, D/B/A TRI-CITY SCRAP CO (complaint) (settlement)
- KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICAL COOP (complaint) (settlement)
- KLETTER, HARRY (complaint) (settlement)
- L&S METALS PROCESSING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LICKING VALLEY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIV (complaint) (settlement)
- LOUISVILLE  GAS AND ELECTRIC CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LOUISVILLE GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- MEADE COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- NOLIN RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- OAKLEAF, GEORGE, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- OMNISOURCE  CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- OMNISOURCE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- OWEN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- PENNYRILE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- RAS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SALT RIVER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- SHELBY ENERGY COOPERATIVE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SHELBY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTH KENTUCKY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIV (complaint) (settlement)
- TAYLOR COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- TMG ENTERPRISES, DBA METAL CENTER (complaint) (settlement)
- TMG ENTERPRISES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TRI-CITY SCRAP COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA, REGION IV, FILED THIS CIVIL COST RECOVERY REFERRAL WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 107 OF CERCLA, REQUESTING THAT DOJ FILE A COST RECOVERY ACTION AGAINST FOUR POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES (PRPS) TO RECOVER COSTS      INCURRED DURING REMOVAL ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED AT TWO SITES.   THE SONORA SITE AND THE CARLIE MIDDLETON METAL YARD SITE     (THE SITES) ARE LOCATED WITHIN FIVE MILES OF EACH OTHER IN   HARDIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. OVER THE PERIOD BEGINNING IN 1979   AND ENDING IN 1989, THE OPERATORS TRANSPORTED VARIOUS FORMS  OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE MATERIALS, INCLUDING TRANSFORMERS AND    OTHER FORMS OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, TO THE SITES. ONCE AT   THE SITES, THE OPERATORS SEPARATED VALUABLE METALS FROM THE  INDUSTRIAL WASTE MATERIALS BY BURNING OIL AND INSULATION IN  OR ON THE WASTES AND BY MANUALLY REMOVING VALUABLE METALS    FROM THE RUBBLE.  THESE ACTIVITIES RESULTED IN THE RELEASE   OF THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES LEAD AND COPPER AT THE SITES.    DUE TO THE GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY AND THE SIMILARITY OF WASTE  STREAMS OF THE SITES, THE SITES WERE TREATED AS SUBSITES FOR PURPOSES OF CONCURRENT REMOVAL ACTIVITIES WHICH WERE         CONDUCTED DURING THE PERIOD 1989-1991. THE REFERRAL          ADDRESSED COSTS EXPENDED AT BOTH SITES BECAUSE (1) THE SITES WERE COMBINED DURING THE REMOVAL ACTION, (2) OPERATIONS AT   THE SITES WERE IDENTICAL AND THE SAME PERSONS OPERATED THE   SITES, AND (3) THE DEFENDANTS ARE THE SAME FOR EACH SITE.    EPA IDENTIFIED 14 PRPS; HOWEVER, FOR

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