# CLOTHIER DISPOSAL SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2682`
- **Case Number:** 02-1987-0518
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED-SIGNAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN CAN CO (PRIMERICA CORP)
- AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN CO (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN STANDARD INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMF INC (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL CO (complaint) (settlement)
- AZON CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BENDIX CORP. (ALLIED CORP)
- BOISE CASCADE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BRISTOL-MYERS CO (complaint) (settlement)
- CASE HOYT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- CHARLES W. BRENEMAN CO (complaint) (settlement)
- COLUMBIA MILLS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND CO (complaint) (settlement)
- FLOQUIL-POLLY S COLOR CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- JONES CHEMICAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MASONITE CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO (complaint) (settlement)
- MONSANTO CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MORRILL PRESS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- SCHENECTADY CHEMICAL INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SEALRIGHT CO INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SEQUA CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- SHELL OIL CO (complaint) (settlement)
- SMITH CORONA MARCHANT CORP (SCM CORP) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE PROPOSED DEFENDANTS INCLUDE GENERATORS WHOSE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES CAME TO BE LOCATED AT THE CLOTHIER DISPOSAL SITE, THE OWNER AND/OR OPERATOR OF THE SITE, AND AN OWNER AND/OR   OPERATOR OF THE POLLUTION ABATEMENT SERVICES OF OSWEGO, INC. ( PAS ) SITE TO WHICH THE CLOTHIER HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE ORIGINALLY SHIPPED FOR DISPOSAL AND FROM WHICH THEY WERE     SENT FOR REDISPOSAL AT THE CLOTHIER SITE.                      HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE SENT BY THE PROPOSED GENERATOR   DEFENDANTS TO THE PAS SITE FOR DISPOSAL.  APPROXIMATELY      2,200 DRUMS OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE SHIPPED FROM THE    PAS SITE TO THE CLOTHIER SITE.  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES OF THE  TYPES KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SENT BY THE PROPOSED GENERATOR      DEFENDANTS, IN DRUMS, TO THE PAS SITE ARE ALSO KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT THE CLOTHIER SITE.  EACH SUCH PAS GENERATOR  IS THERFORE ALSO A GENERATOR AT THE CLOTHIER SITE.  EPA HAS  INCURRED COSTS IN CONDUCTING REMOVAL AND REMEDIAL ACTIONS AT THE CLOTHIER SITE.  EPA'S THEORY HOLDING THE PROPOSED GENER- ATOR DEFENDANTS LIABLE FOR THE CONDITIONS AT THE CLOTHIER    SITE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY SEVERAL COURTS.  THE PROPOSED      ACTION AGAINST THE OWNER AND/OR OPERATOR OF THE CLOTHIER     SITE IS BASED UPON THAT PARTY'S OWNERSHIP OF THE SITE.         EPA SEEKS PROPOSED RELIEF OF:  1) RECOVERY OF ALL COSTS    WHICH HAVE BEEN INCURRED BY EPA IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE, AS WELL AS PRE-JUGEMENT INTEREST; 2) CIVIL PENALTIES AND     PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE WI

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