# TRY-CHEM CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27131`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0071
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $288K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TRY-CHEM (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN MAY OF 1988 AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION WAS TAKEN AT    THE TRY-CHEM CORP. SITE.  APPROXIMATELY 150 DRUMS AND 30-40  VATS OF CYANIDES AND ACIDS WERE REMOVED.  TRY-CHEM CORP.     FILED FOR CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY IN 1985.  THE OPERATOR FILED  FOR PERSONAL BANKRUPTCY ABOUT THE SAME TIME.  THE REMOVAL    ACTION COST APPROXIMATELY $315,000.  THE PROPERTY HAS APPRO- XIMATELY $300,000 IN BANK TAXES OWED ON IT.  WE BELIEVE THE  PROPERTY TO BE WORTH LESS THAN $100,000.

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