# POWELL DUFFRYN TERMINALS, INC. SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `22711`
- **Case Number:** 04-1998-0359
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.80M
- **Compliance action $:** $23.24M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- POWELL DUFFRYN TERMINALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CERCLA -IN RESPONSE TO AN EXPLOSION & FIRE AT POWELL DUFFRYN TERMINALS, INC. FACILITY, THE U.S. COAST GUARD INITIATED A   CERCLA REMOVAL ACTION IN APRIL 1995.  WHILE THE COAST GUARD  TOOK THE LEAD ROLE AT THE SITE, EPA, NOAA, AND ATSDR         ASSISTED.  THE TOTAL COSTS INCURRED BY THE FEDERAL           GOVERNMENT IS APPROXIMATELY $2,5 MILLION, WHICH HAS BEEN OR  WILL BE PAID FROM TEH HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TRUST FUND        (SUPERFUND).  ON JUNE 26, 1998, REGION 4 REFERRED A SECTION  107 COST RECOVERY CASE TO DOJ, SEEKING TO RECOVER COSTS      INCURRED BY EPA (AND THE COAST GUARD, NOAA, AND ATSDR.  THE  SUIT WILL BE FILED AGAINST POWELL DUFFRYN TERMINALS, INC.    AND POSSIBLY ITS PARENT CORPORATION.                         CAA - ACTION REFERRED TO DOJ 5/29/97.  PDT OPERATES A BULK   TRANSFER AND STORAGE FACILITY IN SAVANNAH, GA, ADJACENT TO   THE SAVANNAH RIVER.  AT 11:30 P.M. ON THE EVENING OF         4/10/95, AN ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANK CONTAINING 211,000      GALLONS OF TURPENTINE EXPLODED AND CAUGHT FIRE.  THE         INCIDENT AROSE PRIMARILY FROM PDT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A    SAFE FACILITY.  PDT VIOLATION THE SECTION 112(R) OF THE CAA  (GENERAL DUTY CLAUSE), BY FAILING: (1) TO IDENTIFY THE       HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH STORING HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS; (2) TO  DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT SYSTEMS TO ELIMINATE OR SIGNIFICANTLY   REDUCE THE HAZARDS; AND (3) TO CREATE SYSTEMS TO MINIMIZE    THE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE OF A FIRE EMERGENCY.

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