# ROSEN SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2684`
- **Case Number:** 02-1987-0520
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $376K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ROSEN, PHILIP A., DEBTOR (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ACTION IS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING FACTS:  PHILIP       ROSEN IS THE CURRENT OWNER AND ONE OF THE FORMER             OPERATORS OF THE ROSEN SITE ('SITE'), A NON-NPL SITE         IN CORTLAND, NEW YORK.  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE            DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE DURING THE PERIOD THAT ROSEN         OPERATED THE SITE.  SUCH DISPOSAL HAS RESULTED IN RELEASE    OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT, AS A RESULT    OF WHICH EPA HAS INCURRED AND IS CONTINUING TO INCUR         RESPONSE COSTS.  UNDER SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA, PHILIP      ROSEN IS LIABLE FOR THOSE COSTS.  ROSEN FILED A PETITION     UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE IN 1983.  THE        PROCEEDING WAS CONVERTED TO A CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY           PROCEEDING IN 1986 AND IS ONGOING.  THE SITE IS ONE OF       THE ASSETS INCLUDED IN ROSEN'S ESTATE.                         PROPOSED RELIEF SOUGHT:  THIS REFERRAL RECOMMENDS THAT     A PROOF OF CLAIM BE FILED IN PHILIP ROSEN'S CHAPTER 7        BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING TO OBTAIN RECOVERY FROM ROSEN'S        BANKRUPTCY ESTATE OF THE APPROXIMATELY $282,000 THAT EPA     EXPECTS TO HAVE INCURRED WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE WITHIN     THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

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