# PRETTY PRODUCTS INC. > **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery ## Case - **Activity ID:** `27613` - **Case Number:** 05-1991-0016 - **Type:** Judicial - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery - **Penalty assessed:** — - **Cost recovery:** $1.75M - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** N ## Defendants - LANCASTER COLONY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement) - PRETTY PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement) ## Summary THE U.S. EPA CONDUCTED 2 PHASES OF A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AT THE SITE; THE FIRST FROM 1983 TO 1985 AND THE SECOND FROM 1985 TO 1987. THE FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS ISSUED ON 10/9/87. THE RECORD OF DECISION WAS ISSUED ON 6/17/88. U.S.EPA HAS ALREADY ENTERED INTO A PROPOSED CONSENT DECREE WITH ALL OF THE PRPS EXCEPT PRETTY PRODUCTS, INC., ONE OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE INSTANT REFERRAL. THE OTHER PROPOSED DEFENDANT IS PRETTY PRODUCTS' PARENT CORPORATION, LANCASTER COLONY CORP. - THE PROPOSED CONSENT DECREE COMMITS THE SETTLING PRPS TO PER FORM THE REMEDIAL DESIGN/REMEDIAL ACTION IDENTIFIED IN THE ROD. THE CONSENT DECREE HAS ALREADY BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A PRIOR REFERRAL BY U.S. EPA. THAT COMPLAINT WAS FILED ON 2/23/90; THE PROPOSED CONSENT DECREE WAS LODGED ON THE SAME DATE. A MOTION TO ENTER THE DECREE WAS FILED BY THE DOJ ON 9/5/90; THIS MOTION HAS NOT YET BEEN RULED ON. - THE U.S. EPA IS SEEKING FROM PRETTY PRODUCTS AND LANCASTER COLONY THE RECOVERY OF ITS PAST COSTS. AS OF 4/30/90, THESE PAST COSTS WERE $1,419,564.44, INCLUDING PRE-JUDGMENT INTE- REST OF $184,811.12. - INFORMATION REQUESTS WERE SENT TO PRETTY PRODUCTS, INC., AS TO ITS WASTE GENERATION AND DISPOSAL. IN ADDITION, PRETTY PRODUCTS' CONSULTANT PREPARED AND SU --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*