# SAPP BATTERY - (BEN SHEMPER)
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `21048`
- **Case Number:** 04-1994-0251
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $6.53M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BEN  SHEMPER & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BEN SHEMPER & SONS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DYNAMIC  METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DYNAMIC METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GULF  COAST RECYCLING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- GULF COAST RECYCLING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- M. BERNSTEIN METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHERN  SCRAP METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHERN SCRAP METALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TARACORP,  INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- TARACORP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CASE SEEKING RECOVERY OF PAST COSTS, AS WELL AS    COSTS FOR OPERABLE UNIT ONE OF THE REMEDY, AGAINST           RECALCITRANT PRP'S.  SAPP BATTERY SUPERFUND SITE IS BATTERY  SITE IN JACKSON COUNTY, FLORIDA NEAR COTTONDALE, FL.  IT     CONDUCTED OPERATIONS FROM THE MID-60'S UNTIL THE EARLY       1980'S.  EPA CONDUCTED A REMOVAL AT THE SITE.  THE PARTIES   AGAINST WHOM THE ACTION IS SOUGHT HAVE BEEN NOTICED ON       NUMEROUS OCCASIONS, WITHOUT RESPONSE.  EPA'S UNRECOVERED     PAST COSTS ARE APPROXIMATELY $2.3 MILLION.

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