# SIGNO TRADING INTERNATIONAL
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2205`
- **Case Number:** 02-1986-0284
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $23K
- **Cost recovery:** $422K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- 11 HARTFORD AVENUE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COLBERT COMPANIES (THE) (settlement)
- COLBERT, CHARLES (complaint) (settlement)
- COLBERT, JACK (complaint) (settlement)
- FADER, ARNOLD (complaint) (settlement)
- LYNRIC ASSOCIATES (complaint) (settlement)
- NEW ISLAND INVESTORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHWARTZ, ARNOLD (complaint) (settlement)
- SIGNO TRADING INC. A/K/A SCI CHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
- SISKIN, MYRON (settlement)
## Summary

EPA REGION II RECOMMENDS THE INITIATION OF A CIVIL ACTION  PURSUANT TO CERCLA 106(B) AND 107(A) AGAINST SIGNO           TRADING INTERNATIONAL, LTD; SCI CHEMICALS; AND JACK AND      CHARLES COLBERT, OFFICERS OF THE TWO COMPANIES (HEREINAFTER  COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS  SIGNO  UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED). THESE PARTIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ABANDONING HAZARDOUS SUB-  STANCES AT A WAREHOUSE LOCATED AT 1 LYONS PLACE, MT. VERNON, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY.  IT ALSO RECOMMENDS NAMING THE VARI- OUS PRESENT AND PAST OWNERS OF THE WAREHOUSE, TO WIT, LYNRIC ASSOCIATES, INC.; ARNOLD SCHWARTZ; ARNOLD FADER; NEW ISLAND  INVESTORS, AND 11 HARTFORD AVENUE, INC., AS DEFENDANTS IN    THIS ACTION.                                                   ON 3/24/84, REGION II ISSUED A SECTION 106 ADMINISTRATIVE  ORDER TO THE ABOVE REFERENCED PERSONS AND ENTITIES REQUIR-   ING THEM TO SUBMIT AND IMPLEMENT PROVIDING FOR THE CLEAN UP  OF THE WAREHOUSE.  BRIEFLY, THE REMOVAL ACTION CONSISTED OF  SAMPLING MATERIALS FOR COMPATIBILITY ANALYSES, PACKING COM-  PATIBLE MATERIALS INTO 55 GALLON DRUMS, OVERPACKING LEAKING  DRUMS, DECONTAMINATING THE FLOOR AND DISPOSING THE MATERIAL  AT PROPER SITES.  THE REMOVAL ACTION TOOK FROM 5/14/84 UNTIL 7/3/84 TO COMPLETE.  THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENT APPROXI-   MATELY $142,773 FOR THE REMOVAL ACTION.                        PROPOSED RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT: COST RECOVERY OF ALL GOVERN- MENTAL EXPENDITURES TO DATE AND CIVIL PENALTIES FOR          VIOLATING EPA'S ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER. 

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