# UNION SCRAP IRON AND METALS
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27088`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0026
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $1.20M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALBIN IDE (DBA IDE TRUCKING CO.) (complaint) (settlement)
- CHGO AND NORTHWESTERN TRANS CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- EDWARD HARTMAN, DBA HARTMAN HYDE & FUR (complaint) (settlement)
- JERRY' AUTO SALVAGE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LARRY HOVDE (DBA HOVDE SERV.) (complaint) (settlement)
- MANKATO IRON & METAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- PAUL HARTMAN, DBA HARTMAN HYDE & FUR CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- RICHARD ROSEN (complaint) (settlement)
- ROGER TOMPKINS (DBA R & M MIDWEST) (complaint) (settlement)
- ROSEN BROTHERS ENTER. (complaint) (settlement)
- SAM BLOOM IRON & METAL (complaint) (settlement)
- SAMUEL HARTMAN (DBA HARTMAN HYDE & FUR) (complaint) (settlement)
- UNION SCRAP IRON & METALS (complaint) (settlement)
- WHITE METAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                          THIS PROPOSED COST RECOVERY CASE CONCERNS THE UNION SCRAP  SITE IN MINNEAPOLIS, MN.  THE SITE IS LOCATED IN NORTH MIN-  NEAPOLIS AND WAS OPERATING AS A BATTERY RECYCLING FACILITY   UNTIL THE EARLY 1980S.  LEAD CONTAMINATED BY-PRODUCTS FROM   THE RECYCLING OPERATION ACCUMULATED ON THE SITE FOR ALMOST A DECADE.  LEAD WAS CONTAMINATING THE SOILS ON THE SITE AND    AIR AND WATER IN THE AREA SURROUNDING THE SITE.                AFTER A DETERMINATION THAT THE LEAD CONTAMINATION POSED A  SERIOUS THREAT TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, THE U.S. EPA INITIATED A STABILIZATION ON DECEMBER 9, 1985.  THE STA- BILIZATION ACTION CONTINUED UNTIL JANUARY 17, 1986.  ONCE A  PERMANENT REPOSITORY FOR THE LEAD CONTAMINATED WASTES WAS    FOUND, A REMOVAL TO THE LEAD CONTAMINATED SOILS AND DEBRIS   WAS INITIATED IN APRIL OF 1988.  FURTHER SOIL REMOVAL OCCUR- RED IN NOVEMBER 1988.                                           CAUSE OF ACTION                                             USEPA SEEKS THE RECOVERY OF APPROXIMATELY $2.1 MIL EXPEND- ED AT THE SITE PURSUANT TO SECT 107 OF CERCLA, 42 USC SECT   9607.  THE RECOMMENDED DEFENDANTS INCLUDE A FORMER OPERATOR  OF THE FACILITY AND MANY OF THE GENERATORS OF THE LEAD TO    THE SITE.                                                       PROPOSED REMEDY                                             THE REMEDY SOUGHT IN THIS ACTION IS THE REIMBURSEMENT OF   ALL RESPONSE COSTS EXPENDED BY THE USEP

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