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Judicial · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery · 21739

Penalty
$50K
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
04-1996-0380
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

A REMOVAL ACTION AT THIS SITE WAS COMPLETED IN OCTOBER 1993 AND REFERRED TO COST RECOVERY. CIVIL INVESTIGATOR DETERMINED IN LATE FEBRUARY TO LATE MARCH 1996 THAT ACTUAL OWNER/OPERATOR OF SITE HAD ACTED THROUGH SEVERAL CORPORATE SHELLS ALL OF WHICH WERE IN BANKRUPTCY AND THE TRUSTEE OF WESLEY INDUSTRIES, INC., HAS COLLECTED SOME $200,000 WHICH HE WAS ABOUT TO DISTRIBUT. THIS CASE IS A BANKRUPTCY REFERRAL TO DOJ TO AUTHORIZE THE LATE FILING OF A PROOF OF CLAIM, AS EPA DID NOT HAVE PRIOR NOTICE OF THESE BANKRUPTCIES. TOTAL COSTS OF THE REMOVAL ARE $732,000.

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EPA ECHO
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