# CLEARWATER FINISHING SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22703`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0348
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $850K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AIKEN COUNTY FORFEITED LANDS COMMISSION (complaint) (settlement)
- AIKEN COUNTY, SC (complaint) (settlement)
- CLEARWATER FINISHING
- NATIONS BANK (complaint) (settlement)
- NEAL, ROBERT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERRAL FOR 107(A) COST RECOVERY.  EPA PERFORMED REMOVAL OF 3,000 DRUMS, 27 ASTS, 2 LAB AREAS, AND ASBESTOS AT TEXTILE   MANUFACTURING FACILITY.  WHEN FACILITY WENT BANKRUPT,        NATIONSBANK PERFORMED LIQUIDATION OF ASSETS RELEASING        ASBESTOS AND CAUSING DISPOSAL OF DRUMS OF CHEMICALS AND      DYES.  EPA SPENT $1.2 MILLIONS DOLLARS IN COSTS.             AFTER BANK'S LIQUIDATION, THE AIKEN COUNTY FORFEITED LANDS   COMMISSION PREVENTED A VOLUNTARY REMOVAL AND CAUSED THE      RELEASE OF ASBESTOS AND OTHER CHEMICALS.                     THE LAST OPERATOR OF THE SITE, BOBBY NEAL, DUMPS CONTAINERS  OF WASTE AT THE SITE.

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