# BESSEMER DRUM SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `21597`
- **Case Number:** 04-1996-0070
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $400K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN SURPLUS AND SALVAGE, INC.
- DEFENSE REUTILIZATION MARKETING SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- GOBER, JOHN
- JONES, JOHNNY (complaint) (settlement)
- MARK POINT PROPERTIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- STEWART, LLOYD L.
## Summary

THIS IS A COST RECOVERY REFERRAL UNDER SECTION 107 OF CERCLA FOR A FUND-LEAD REMOVAL CONDUCTED AT THE BESSEMER DRUM  SITE IN BESSEMER, ALABAMA.  A VARIETY OF CHEMICALS WERE ABANDONED BY AN ARMY-SURPLUS CHEMICAL RETAIL STORE/FLEA MARKET IN A    WAREHOUSE IN BESSEMER ALABAMA.  DRUMS AND OTHER CONTAINERS   WERE STACKED THREE HIGH, WITH INCOMPATIBLES NEXT TO EACH     OTHER, AND SOME LEAKING.  FLAMMABLE VAPORS WERE ACCUMULATING IN THE WAREHOUSE.  EPA CONDUCTED THE CLEANUP AND HAS         INCURRED COSTS OF $467,000 AS OF NOVEMBER 1995.  PRPS        INCLUDE THE DEFENSE REUTILIZATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE, WHICH  SELLS, TRANSFERS DISPOSES OF ARMY SURPLUS PERSONAL PROPERTY  AND SOLD MOST OF THE MATERIALS ADDRESSED AT THE SITE TO THE  ARMY SURPLUS BUSINESS THAT ABANDONED THE MATERIALS.  ALSO    RECOMMENDED AS DEFENDANTS ARE JOHNNY JONES, WHO OWNED THE    PROPERTY WHERE THE MATERIALS WERE ABANDONED AND MOVED THEM   TO THE SITE, AND MARK POINT PROPERTIES, INC., OWNER OF THE   SITE.                                                        THE OWNER/OPERATORS OF THE ARMY SURPLUS BUSINESS THAT        ABANDONED THE MATERIALS (AMERICAN SURPLUS AND SALVAGE,       INC.,) LLOYD STEWART, AND JOHN GOBER ARE PRP BUT ARE NOT     VIABLE AS DEFENDANTS.

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