# WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC/FELL IRON AND METAL, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26777`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0063
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $871K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FELL IRON AND METAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATE VIOLATION DETERMINED:  10/15/84                         DATE DOCUMENTS RECEIVED BY ORC: 11/02/87                      A.  NATURE OIF THE CASE:                                    THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY ACTION CONCERNS THE FELL SCRAP YARD SITE LOCATED IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.  THE  ORIGINAL IMMEDIATE REMOVAL REQUEST AUTHORIZED IMMEDIATE RE-  MOVAL ACTIONS AT FOUR SEPARATE SITES LOCATED IN BLOOMINGTON, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE FELL SCRAPYARD SITE.  THE FOUR SITES    WERE REFERRED TO COLLECTIVELY AS THE  BLOOMINGTON CAPACI-    TORS  SITES, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE ALL FOUR WERE LOCATED IN     BLOOMINGTON AND ALL WERE CONTAMINATED BY POLYCHLORINATED BI- PHENYLS (PCBS).  HOWEVER, DUE TO EVIDENTIARY ISSUES AND ASSO CIATED PROOF PROBLEMS, THIS REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT A COST RE COVERY ACTION BE COMMENCED FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF REMOVAL      COSTS INCURRED AT THE FELL SCRAPYARD SITE ONLY.                IN SEPTEMBER 1984, USEPA WAS NOTIFIED THAT CERTAIN SITES   LOCATED IN BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA WERE CONTAMINATED BY PCBS.   USEPA'S SPILL RESPONSE SECTION INVESTIGATED THE SITES, ONE   OF WHICH WAS THE FELL SCRAPYARD SITE, AND OBSERVED DISPOSED  ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND PCB-CONTAMINATED SOIL.  SUBSEQUENT  LABORATORY ANALYSES OF SOIL SAMPLES AND SAMPLES OF FLUID CON TAINED WITHIN THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT DEMONSTRATED EXTREME- LY HIGH LEVELS OF PCBS PRESENT IN BOTH THE FLUID AND SOIL    SAMPLES.                                                       AFTER DETERMINING THAT THE SITES POS

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