# CARLIE LEE LEAD SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22429`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0045
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.01M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED BATTERY (complaint) (settlement)
- CSX TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
- ECONO BATTERY SERVICE (complaint) (settlement)
- FAIRFIELD IRON & METAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JORDAN SCRAP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JOSEPH R. MCCLENEY, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- THOMPSON TRACTOR COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. SPENT $1,197,818 CONDUCTING REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE  -- AN OLD BATTERY-CRACKING FACILITY.  REMOVAL CONSISTED OF   ON-SITE TREATMENT OF LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOIL.  REFERRAL IS A  CIVIL COST RECOVERY ACTION                                   BROUGHT UNDER SECTION 107 OF CERCLA.  DEFENDANTS NUMBER      APPROXIMATELY 20 AND CONSIST OF 3 OWNERS/OPERATORS AND 17    GENERATORS.  THERE ARE NO SPECIAL FACTS PRESENT EXCEPT THAT  EQUITABLE CONSIDERATIONS EXIST AS EVIDENCE CONSISTS OF A FEW CANCELED CHECKS AND TESTIMONY.

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