# RESERVE MINING
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26509`
- **Case Number:** 05-1987-0278
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RESERVE MINING (complaint)
## Summary

U.S. EPA MAY FILE A PROOF CLAIM IN THE RESERVE MINING   BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.  EPA IS SEEKING TO RECOVER MONIES EXPENDED WHILE CONDUCTING A RI/FS AND DEVELOPING A ROD AT A SITE WHERE RESERVE WAS A MA- JOR GENERATOR.  THE PROOF OF CLAIM ALSO SEEKS THE COST OF    IMPLEMENTING THE ROD.  RESERVE MINING FROM ABOUT 1960 TO     1976 SENT 600,000 GALLONS OF WASTE OIL TO ARROWHEAD REFINERY IN GERMANTOWN, MN. FOR RECYCLING.  THE RECYCLING PROCESS     USED ACIDS TO REMOVE THE METALS IN THE USED OIL.  THE RESID- UALS OF THIS PROCESS WERE SPREAD OVER THE AVERAGE BELONGING  TO THE RECYCLER.                                                  OVER THE PERIOD, 1961 TO 1976, RESERVE MINING COMPANY   SHIPPED WASTE OIL FROM ITS HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND ELECTRICAL    TRANSFORMERS TO THE ARROWHEAD REFINERY COMPANY (ARROWHEAD)   FOR RECLAMATION.  RESERVE MINING WAS THE SOURCE FOR MORE     THAN 50% OF THE WASTE OIL RECEIVED BY ARROWHEAD DURING THE   LATTER'S OPERA6ING LIFE.                                          AS PART OF ITS RECLAMATION PROCESS, ARROWHEAD DISPOSED  OF HIGHLY ACIDIC, METAL LADEN SLUDGE IN AN UNLINED 2 ACRE    LAGOON ON ITS OWN PROPERTY.  BECAUSE OF CONTAMINATION RESULT ING FROM THIS DIPOSAL PRACTICE, ARROWHEAD'S PROPERTY WAS     LISTED ON THE NPL IN SEPTEMBR 1983.  A REMEDIAL INVESTIGA-   TION CONDUCTED BY EPA HAS SHOWN THAT THE SLUDGE FROM THE     LAGOON CONTAINS ABOUT 4,600 CUBIC YARDS OF PETROLEUM BASED   OILY SLUDGE, CONTAMINATED WITH VARIOUS OR

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