# STRAITS STEEL & WIRE COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27398`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0114
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.80M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CITATION-WALTHER CORPORATION
- STRAITS STEEL AND WIRE COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT A COMPLAINT BE FILED AGAINST     POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES AT THE MASON COUNTY LANDFILL SITE, PURSUANT TO SECTION 107A OF THE CERCLA.                -                                                            LOCATED NEAR LUDINGTON, MI, THE MASON COUNTY LANDFILL SITE   WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST IN 1982.  THE     U.S. EPA COMPLETED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY  STUDY AT THE SITE IN JULY, 1988, AND ISSUED A RECORD OF DE-  CISION THAT AUGUST.  IN APRIL, 1989, THE U.S. EPA ISSUED A   UNILATERAL ORDER TO THE COUNTY OF MASON FOR REMEDIAL ACTION  AND REMEDIAL DESIGN, AFTER NEGOTIATIONS FOR A CONSENT DECREE FAILED.  AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1989, THE U.S. EPA HAS INCURRED  $942,190 IN UNREIMBURSED COSTS REGARDING THE SITE.  PURSUANT TO SECTION 113G OF CERCLA, AN ACTION FOR THE RECOVERY OF     COSTS REFERRED TO IN SECTION 107A OF CERCLA MUST BE COM-     MENCED WITHIN 6 YEARS AFTER INITIATION OF PHYSICAL ON-SITE   CONSTRUCTION OF THE REMEDIAL ACTION.  USEPA IS, THEREFORE,   REFERRING THIS COST RECOVERY LAWSUIT SEEKING ALL OF USEPA'S  UNREIMBURSED PAST COSTS.

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