# CARTER INDUSTRIAL
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26296`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0509
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $2.90M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CARTER INDUSTRIAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

I.  SYNOPSIS OF CASE                                              CARTER INDUSTRIALS, INC ( CARTER ) IS A MICHIGAN COR-   PORATION ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF PROCESSING AND SELLING   SCRAP METALS.  SINCE APPROX. 1971 CARTER OPERATED ITS BUSI-  NESS AT AND NEAR 4690 HUMBOLT STREET IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN.   CARTER'S SCRAPPING OPERATIONS INCLUDED THE SCRAPPING OF TRAN SFORMERS AND CAPACITORS LADEN WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS ( PCBS ).  IN THE COURSE OF SCRAPPING OPERATIONS THE CARTER  PROPERTY BECAME CONTAMINATED WITH PCBS.  IN ADDITION, PCBS   MIGRATED OR WERE TRACKED FROM THE CARTER PROPERTY INTO SUR-  ROUNDING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL AREAS.                        CARTER IS CURRENTLY IN BANKRUPTCY.  AN INVOLUNTARY PE-  TITION FOR BANKRUPTCY WAS FILED BY CARTER'S CREDITORS ON     FEBRUARY 7, 1986.  ON  MARCH 13, 1986, AN ORDER FOR RELIEF   WAS ENTERED TRANSFERRING THE CASE TO A VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY  PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 7 OF THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY CODE.  THE BANKRUPTCY CASE IS CAPTIONED:  IN RE CARTER INDUSTRIALS, INC., 4690 HUMBOLT STREET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48208.  THE     BANKRUPTCY CASE IS BEFORE JUDGE RHODES OF THE UNITED STATES  BANKRUPTCY COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, SOUTHERN     DIVISION.  THE BANKRUPTCY CASE NUMBER IS 86-00494-R.  FRED   J. DERY, 801 W. BIG BEAVER, SUITE 570, TROY, MICHIGAN, HAS   BEEN NAMED THE UNITED STATES TRUSTEE IN THIS MATTER.              DUE TO CONDITIONS AT THE CARTER FACILITY, ON 6/6/86,    THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR OF USEPA 

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