# FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO. SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20939`
- **Case Number:** 04-1993-1396
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $348K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALBANY-DOUGHERTY PAYROLL AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIDGESTONE / FIRESTONE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE IS THE LOCATION OF A FORMER TIRE MANUFACTURING      FACILITY.  THE OWNER AT ALL RELEVANT TIMES HAS BEEN THE      ALBANY-DOUGHERTY PAYROLL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.  FROM 1968   TO 1986, THE OPERATOR OF THE FACILITY, UNDER LEASE FROM THE  PAYROLL AUTHORITY, WAS FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER (NOW          BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC.)                                 A PRP-LEAD RI/FS REVEALED MINOR PCB SOIL CONTAMINATION IN    ONE LOCATION.  IT ALSO REVEALED GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION BY VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, AS WELL AS POSSIBLE GROUNDWATER  CONTAMINATION BY METALS.  THE ROD CALLS FOR SOIL EXCAVATION  AND DISPOSAL AND GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION AND TREATMENT.  THE  CONSENT DECREE REFERRED TO DOJ REQUIRES THE PRP TO PERFORM   THE SOIL REMEDIATION AND TO TREAT THE GROUNDWATER FOR THE    VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.  THE CONSENT DECREE RESERVES     EPA'S RIGHTS TO SEEK TREATMENT OF THE METALS IN THE           GROUNDWATER PENDING THE RESULTS OF FURTHER INVESTIGATORY     WORK BEING PERFORMED UNDER MODIFICATION TO THE RI/FS AOC.

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