# FORD MOTOR CO/SPIEGELBERG LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26401`
- **Case Number:** 05-1987-0160
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $783K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FORD MOTOR CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUBJECT OF PRESENT CASE IS AN OPERABLE UNIT WHERE A CON-   SENT DECREE IS CURRENTLY BEING NEGOTIATED FOR THE CLEANUP OF PAINT SLUDGE.                                                  ADDITIONALLY, IS A LARGER CASE ENCOMPANING THE SPIEGELBERG LANDFILL AND THE ADJACENT RASMUSSEN DUMP SITE.  A DRAFT RI   WAS JUST COMPLETED 3/15/88.                                    THE SPIEGELBERG SITE IS LOCATED IN GREEN OAK TWNSHP IN     LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.  THE OPERABLE UNIT OCCUPIES     APPROX. 1/2 ACRE OF THE SITE AND CONSISTS OF A GRAVEL PIT IN WHICH A VARIETY OF WASTES WERE DISPOSED OF FROM APPROX 1966  UNTIL.  SOME OF THIS WASTE CONSISTED OF WASTE PAINT MATE-    RIALS FROM FORD'S WAYNE TRUCK PLANT.                           FOLLOWING THE LISTING OF THE SITE ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES   IST IN DECEMBER 1982 AND BASED ON INFORMATION COLLECTED      DURING A PHASED FEASIBILITY STUDY, A SOURCE CONTROL REMEDIAL ACTION WAS SELECTED FOR THE SPIEGELBERG OPERABLE UNIT IN A   RECORD OF DECISION SIGNED BY THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR ON   SEPTEMBER 30, 1986.  FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF NEGOTIA TIONS, AN AGREEMENT WAS REACHED TO CONDUCT A REMEDIAL ACTION WHICH WAS CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE TO FORD, THE STATE OF        MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES.  THE CONSENT DECREE ALSO     CALLS FOR FORD TO REIMBURSE U.S. EPA FOR ALL COSTS INCURRED  AT THE SITE PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1987, WHICH ARE NOT INCON-   SISTENT WITH THE NATIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN.                    THE AUTHORITY FOR FILING A COMPLAINT

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