# CHEM FOUR
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `21739`
- **Case Number:** 04-1996-0380
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $50K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WESLEY INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## 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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