# DICKERSON POST TREATING SITE (DEF. AT&T)
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `21468`
- **Case Number:** 04-1995-0479
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $141K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AT&T CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- LEE ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE WAS A WOODTREATING FACILITY THAT CAME TO EPA'S      NOTICE IN 1984.                                              LITIGATION COMMENCED ALMOST IMMEDIATLY WITH EPA ABLE TO      OBTAIN ACCESS IN                                             1987 ONLY BY ORDER OF THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, ELEVENTH    CIRCUIT.                                                     AFTER A FUND-LEAD REMOVAL, EPA SUED MR. JAMES DICKERSON AND  HIS                                                          CORPORATION, AMTRECO, INC., FOR RECOVERRY OF PAST COSTS      UNDER SECTION                                                107 OF CERCLA.  SOON AFTER THE UNITED STATES FILED THE COST  RECOVERY                                                     ACTION, MR. DICKERSON FRAUDULENTLY CONVEYED HIS ASSETS       (AMTRECO, INC.                                               WAS DEFUNCT) TO HIS WIFE AND TO A TRUST, WHEREUPON EPA       BROUGHT ACTION                                               UNDER THE FEDERAL DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURES ACT.  THE CASE  WAS AGAINST                                                  MR. DICKERSON AND AMTRECO WAS SETTLED FINALLY ON MARCH 31,   1995; IN                                                     ADDITION TO PAYMENT, MR. DICKERSON AND AMTRECO ASSIGNED TO   THE U.S.                                                     THEIR THIRD AND FOURTH PARTY CLAIMS AGAINST AT&T AND LEE     ENGINEERING,                                                 RESPECTIVELY, THAT WERE THE SUBJECT 

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