# AMTEL, INC./BARBER
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27663`
- **Case Number:** 05-1991-0067
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $160K
- **Compliance action $:** $50K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMTEL, INC. (complaint)
- BARBER, FRANK (complaint) (settlement)
- DASCO PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERRAL REQUESTS A COMPLAINT BE FILED AGAINST POTENTIALLY   RESPONSIBLE PARTIES (PRP) AT THE HEDBLUM INDUSTRIES SITE     PURSUANT TO SECTION 107A OF CERCLA.                          -                                                            LOCATED NEAR OSCODA, MI, THE HEDBLUM INDUSTRIES SITE WAS     PLACED ON THE NPL IN 1982.  THE U.S.EPA COMPLETED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION (RI) IN 2/89, AND A FEASIBILITY STUDY (FS)     IN 5/89.  A RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) WAS SIGNED FOR THIS     SITE IN 9/89.  ON 1/14/90, U.S.EPA ISSUED A SECTION 106      UNILATERAL ORDER TO THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE SITE, THE OWNER OF THE SITE AT THE TIME OF DISPOSAL, AND THE OPERATOR OF THE SITE AT THE TIME OF DISPOSAL.  THE OPERATOR OF THE SITE AT   THE TIME OF DISPOSAL HAS COMPLIED WITH THE TERMS OF THE      ORDER, AND IS IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING THE REMEDIAL       DESIGN (RD) FOR THE SITE.  AS OF JANUARY 29, 1991, THE U.S.  EPA HAS INCURRED $1,155,534.60 IN UNREIMBURSED COSTS RE-     GARDING THE SITE.                                            -                                                            PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(G) OF CERCLA, AN ACTION FOR THE RE-  COVERY OF COSTS REFERRED TO IN SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN 3 YEARS OF COMPLETION OF THE REMOVAL     ACTION.  IN THIS CASE THE REMOVAL ACTION IS THE RI/FS,       WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN MAY 1989.  U.S.EPA IS, THEREFORE      REFERRING THIS COST RECOVERY LAWSUIT AT THIS TIME SEEKING    ALL OF U.SEPA'S UNREIMBURSED PAST CO

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