# SOUTHERN ASBESTOS SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `24681`
- **Case Number:** 04-2001-9046
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GODLEY AUCTION COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DEFENDANT GODLEY AUCTION COMPANY, INC. ( GODLEY ) ACQUIRED   THE FORMER ASBESTOS TEXTILE FACILITY IN 1978, AFTER          OPERATIONS WERE SHUT DOWN.  OVER ITS NINETEEN YEARS          OF OWNERSHIP, GODLEY DID NOT CONDUCT ANY OPERATIONS          AT THE SITE BUT ALLOWED THE FACILITY TO DETERIORATE.         IN 1984, THE STATE OF SC ORDERED GODLEY TO IMPLEMENT         CERTAIN MEASURES TO SEAL THE FACILITY AND PREVENT ACCESS     IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM EXPOSURE TO FRIABLE      ASBESTOS INSIDE THE FACILITY.  GODLEY DID NOT COMPLY.        OVER THE FOLLOWING YEARS, GODLEY MADE MINIMAL EFFORTS TO     COMPLY WITH THE CONTINUING ORDER AND WAS FINED TWICE         BY THE STATE FOR NONCOMPLIANCE.  PERIODIC INSPECTIONS BY     THE STATE REVEALED THAT DOORS WERE LEFT OPEN, WINDOWS        WERE BROKEN, THE ROOF COLLAPSED, AND PERIMETER FENCING       WAS BREACHED.  IT IS EPA'S CONTENTION THAT GODLEY IS         LIABLE AS AN OWNER OF A FACILITY AT THE TIME OF DISPOSAL     OF A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE PURSUANT TO CERCLA SECTION          107(A)(2).  EPA CONTENDS THAT OVER GODLEY'S YEARS OF         OWNERSHIP, DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES OCCURRED         FROM THE FACILITY INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.                      NATURE AND NUMBER OF DEFENDANTS:  THE ONLY DEFENDANT         IS GODLEY AUCTION COMPANY, INC., A NC CORPORATION FORMED     IN 1949 BY TWO GODLEYS, POSSIBLY BROTHERS.  THE COMPANY      REMAINED FAMILY-OWNED TODAY.  THE BUSINESS IS COMPRISED      OF 50 PERCENT AUCTION SERVICE AND 50

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