# AMERICAN THERMOSTAT CORP (BNK)
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2391`
- **Case Number:** 02-1987-0076
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $122K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN THERMOSTAT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 12/4/86, EPA REG. II SENT A MEMO TO HQ REQUESTING THE   FILING OF A PROOF OF CLAIM BY 12/12/86 TO PRESERVE THE GOV-  ERNMENT'S RIGHT TO SEEK RECOVERY OF COSTS FROM THE AMERICAN  THERMOSTAT CORP. OF APPROXIMATELY $20,000 WHICH HAVE BEEN    INCURRED, ADD'L COSTS WHICH HAVE BEEN INCURRED BUT HAVE NOT  BEEN DOCUMENTED, & ADD'L COSTS WHICH ARE INCURRED.  THESE    COSTS HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE INCURRED BY THE GOV'T AS PART OF  A REMOVAL ACTION AUTHORIZED ON 8/19/85 OR THE EXTENSION OF Q THE REMOVAL ACTION WHICH AUTHORIZED THE EXPENDITURE OF       $141,000 ON 8/25/86.                                           PURSUANT TO SECT. 104 OF CERCLA, THE EPA, THROUGH THE      HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TRUST FUND, UNDERTOOK & WILL UNDERTAKE  INVESTIGATIVE, REMOVAL AND REMEDIAL WORK AT THE FACILITY     WHICH WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE DEBTOR, AMERICAN         THERMOSTAT CORP.  SECT. 107 OF CERCLA & OTHER AUTHORITIES    PROVIDE THAT THE DEBTOR, AS THE OWNER OR OPERATOR AT THE     TIME OF DISPOSAL OF CONTAMINANTS, INCLUDING HAZARDOUS SUB-   STANCES, AT THE SITE IS LIABLE TO THE U.S. FOR THE COSTS OF  THE INVESTIGATIVE, REMOVAL AND REMEDIAL WORK.  THIS CLAIM    MAY BE FILED AS A PRIORITY CLAIM ON THE BASIS THAT THE       MONIES EXPENDED ARE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS PRESERVING THE      ESTATE.  ALTERNATIVELY, THE CLAIM MAY BE FILED AS A GENERAL  UNSECURED CLAIM.                                               AMERICAN THERMOSTAT IS LIABLE UNDER CERCLA BASED UPON THE  FOLLOWING.  IN 1965 THE OFFICERS OF AM

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