# HODGES, LLOYD L. & CITGO
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25089`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0051
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CITIES SERVICES CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- DESTRUCTO CHEMWAY CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- HODGES CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- LLOYD L. HODGES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DEF. LLOYD L. HODGES & THE LLOYD L. HODGES COMP ARE          ENGAGED IN DISMANTLING AN OIL REFINERY OWNED BY DEFENDENT    CITIES SERVICE COMPANY (CITCO) IN EAST CHICAGO, IN.          ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT, THE DISMANTLING OPERATIONS       HAVE RELEASED LARGE QUANTITIES OF ASBESTOS, A KNOWN HUMAN    CARCINOGEN, INTO THE AIR, THREATENING THE HEALTH OF          WORKERS & RESIDENTS OF THE AREA. THE REFINERY IS LOCATED     IN A LT IND. AREA AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLINE & CHICAGO     AVENUES. SEVERAL CO.'S ARE LOCATED TO THE SOUTH OF THE       SITE, & TO THE NORTH & EAST ARE RESIDENT. SECTIONS. CITCO    OPERATED THE REFINERY UNTIL 1976, & CURRENTLY OPERATES AN    OIL STORAGE TERMINAL AT THE FACILITY. HODGES BEGAN THE       DEMOLITION IN LATE FALL OF 1976.  AS PART OF THE             OPERATION, HODGES DISMANTLES BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT WHICH     ARE INSULATED OR FIRE PROOFED WITH FRIABLE ASBESTOS. LRG     QUANTITIES OF ASBESTOS HAVE ACCUMULATED ON-SITE.               AS A RESULT OF THE ORIGINAL DEMOLITION PROCESS, APPROX.    15,000 CU FT OF ASBESTOS MAT'L REMAINED IN PILES IN AN OPEN  AREA OF THE SITE.  ALSO, BROKEN PIPES AND TANKS WERE FOUND   SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE SITE, MANY NOT FULLY STRIPPED OF    THEIR COVERINGS.  PURSUANT TO AN AGREED PRELIM ORDER, FILED  SEPT 4 1980, LARGE ASBESTOS PILES WERE REMOVED FROM CITGO'S  PROPERTY & THE UNDERLYING DIRT SCRAPED CLEAN IN NOV. 1980.     ON AUG 17 1982, REGION V INSPECTED THE SITE & FOUND APPROX 100 ACRES COVERED WITH ASBESTOS-CONT

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