# ADLER SEED COMPANY, ET AL.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1989 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27175`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0120
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ADLER SEEDS INC.
- AEROQUIP CORPORATION
- ALLEN COUNTY MOTORS, INC.
- ALLIED-SIGNAL INC./BENDIX CORPORATION
- AMERICAN TOOL&DIE, INC.
- ANR FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC./ASSOC. TRUCK
- APPELTON PAPERS INC.
- ARISTECH CHEMICAL CORP/USS CHEMICALS
- ARO CORPORATION FOR MODERNAIR CORP.
- BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
- BARD MANUFACTURING CO.
- BAUMAN HARNISH RUBBER & PLASTICS, INC.
- BAXTER HELTHCARE CORP/DAYTON FLEXIBLE
- BERNE TUBE PRODUCTS DIV. BLISSFIELD MFG
- BIOMET, INC.
- BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM DIAGNOSTICS
- BOWMAN CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
- BOWMAR INSTRUMENT CORP./AEROSPACE DIV.
- CARRETTA TRUCKING, INC.
- CENTRAL SOYA CO., INC.
- CHASE BRASS&COPPER CO.
- CHEMCENTRAL CORP.
- CMS ROOFING, INC.
- COMMERCIAL INTERTECH CORP.
- COOPER TIRE&RUBBER CO./INDUSTRIAL PROD.
- CORNING GLASS WORKS
- CRAFT LABORATORIES, INC.
- CROWN INTERNATION INC.
- CTS CORP.
- DECATUR SALVAGE, INC.
- DETREX CORP./GOLD SHEILD
- DRESSER INDUSTRIES /BAY STATE ABRASIVES
- DUPONT PHOTOMASKS, INC./TAU LAB.
- EAGLE PICHER FOR HILLSDALE TOOL&MFG CO.
- EASCO ALIMINUM/INDIANA ALUMINUM EXTRSION
- EMERSON ELECTRIC CO./DOERR ELECTRIC
- EPCO PRODUCTS, INC.
- ERIE STONE INC.
- FEDERAL INSULATION OF INDIANA, INC.
- FEDERAL-MOGUL CORP. FOR SWITCHES, INC.
- FL AEROSPACE CORP./MIDLAND ROSS CORP.
- FMC CORP./ FIRE APPARATUS DIV
- FORD METER BOX CO., INC.
- FORT WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
- FORT WAYNE POOLS, INC.
- FORT WAYNE-CITY OF
- FRYE COPISYSTEMS, INC.
- G.F. FURNITURE SYSTEMS
- GLADIEUX REFINERY INC.
- GOULD INC.
## Summary

PROVIDE PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED DE MINIMIS    SETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER IN THE I. JONES RECYCLING    CASE.  THIS REQUEST IS MADE PURSUANT TO SECTION 122(G) OF    THE CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9622(G).  UNDER THIS PROPOSED  SETTLEMENT, 139 COMPANIES HAVE AGREED TO PAY A TOTAL OF      $2,172,038.74 INTO THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES SUPERFUND.  OF   THAT, $1,888,326.05 REPRESENTS REIMBURSEMENT FOR A PORTION   OF THE AGENCY'S PAST COSTS AT THE SITE AND $283,712.69 REPRE SENTS PAYMENTS IN SETTLEMENT OF POTENTIAL PENALTY LIABILITY  FACED BY PARTIES WHO HAD NOT COMPLIED WITH THE AGENCY'S JULY 27, 1988, UNILATERAL CLEANUP ORDER.                          -                                                            THE I. JONES RECYCLING SITE IN FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, WAS OPER ATED AS AN INTERIM STATUS HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE AND RECY-  CLING FACILITY FORM 1980 UNTIL 1986.  THE 4.5 ACRE SITE IS   ADJACENT TO A LARGE SHOPPING CENTER AND SEVERAL SMALL BUSI-  NESSES, AND IS LOCATED NEAR RESIDENTIAL AREAS.  ON OCTOBER   14, 1986, AND SEPTEMBER 3, 1987, U.S. EPA ISSUED UNILATERAL  CLEANUP ORDERS TO THE SITE OWNERS AND OPERATORS FOR PERFORM- ANCE OF THE FIRST PHASES OF THE REMOVAL ACTIVITES NEEDED AT  THE SITE.  THESE FIRST PAHSES INCLUDED SECURING, STAGING,    SAMPLING, OVERPACKING, AND DISPOSING OF HUNDREDS OF THOU-    SANDS OF GALLONS OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES CONTAINED IN DRUMS, BULK STORAGE TANKS AND ROLLOFF BOXES AT THE SITE.  THE OWN-  ERS AND OPERATORS REFUSED TO COMPLY 

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