# UNITED TECHNOLOGIES/AMERICAN WASTE PROCESSING
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27121`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0060
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $2.90M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ADVANCE CIRCUITS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ADVANCE MACHINE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ALT & WITZIG ENGINEERING, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERACE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND (complaint) (settlement)
- AMERICAN WASTE PROCESSING (complaint) (settlement)
- AMPHENOL (complaint) (settlement)
- ARCO INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- AUDIOTRONICS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BALL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BARRY BLOWER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BEST LOCK CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BETHESDA LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER (complaint) (settlement)
- BIDDLE PRECISION COMPONENTS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BIXEL PAINT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BLILEY ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BLISSFIELD MANUFACTURING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BMC INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BORG-WARNER AUTOMOTIVE (complaint) (settlement)
- BOWES SEAL FAST CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BRAZEWAY, INC. (BENDIT) (complaint) (settlement)
- BRODEY & BRODEY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BROTHER'S BODY & PAINT (complaint) (settlement)
- BROWN PRINTING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BRUCE FOX, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- BUCKBEE-MEARS COMPANY
- CABOT CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CADBURY SCHWEPPES INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CENTURY MFG. COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CERDEN & SON MFG., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL & SOLVENT DISTILLERS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL MARKETING COMPANY OF AMERICA (complaint) (settlement)
- CHEMICAL WASTE MGT FOR IWD LIQUID WASTE (complaint) (settlement)
- CHRIS GRABER (complaint) (settlement)
- CITY MACHINE TOOL & DIE COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COLORED METALS, INC.
- COLWELL/GENERAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- COMMERCIAL SEWER CLEANING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CONOCO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CONTROL DATA CORPORATION
- CORDUROY RUBBER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CRUCIBLE MATERIALS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- CUMMINS ENGINE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DART CONTROLS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- DE PAUW UNIVERSITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION BROUGHT BY THE U.S. PURSUANT TO     SECT 106 AND 107 OF CERCLA, 42 USC SECTS 9606 AND 9607.  THE U.S. SEEKS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REMEDY IN THE SEPTEMBER 25, 1987, RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) AND REIMBURSEMENT OF REMOVAL  AND REMEDIAL ACTION COSTS INCURRED BY THE U.S. AT THE ENVIRO NMENTAL CONSERVATION & CHEMICAL CORP. ( ECC OR ENVIROCHEM )  SITE.                                                          THE ENVIROCHEM SITE IS LOCATED IN BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA,   ABOUT TEN MILES NORTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS ON U.S. HIGHWAY    421 NEAR ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA.  ECC IS THE SURVIVING CORP. OF THE MERGER ON MARCH 1, 1980, OF TECHNOSOLVE, INC AND ENVIRO- CHEM.  ECC BEGAN OPERATION AT THE SITE IN AUGUST OF 1977,    AND ENGAGED IN THE RECOVERY, RECLAMATION AND BROKERING OF    PRIMARY SOLVENTS, OILS AND OTHER WASTES RECEIVED FROM INDUS- TRIAL CLIENTS.  WASTE PRODUCTS WERE RECEIVED IN DRUMS FROM   BULK TANKERS, STORED, AND THEN PREPARED FOR SUBSEQUENT RECLA MATION OR DISPOSAL.  THE SITE BECAME INACTIVE IN THE SPRING  OF 1982.                                                       ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1982, THE INDIANA STATE BD OF HEALTH AND  THE USEPA INSPECTED ECC AND DISCOVERED APPROXIMATELY 25,000  DRUMS AND 56 BULK STORAGE TANKS ON THE SITE.  SAMPLES TAKEN  BY THE INSPECTORS INDICATED THAT THE WASTES STORED THERE IN- CLUDED ACETONE, 1,1,1, TRICHLOROETHANE, METHYL ETHYL KETONE, TRICHLOROETHYLENE, METHYL IPSO-BUTYL KETONE, TOLUENE, XYLENE CADMIUM, CHROMIUM, LEAD, NICKEL, MERCU

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