# ELGIN SALVAGE & SUPPLY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28374`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0793
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERITECH (F/K/A ILLINOIS BELL) (complaint)
- AT & T, INC. (complaint)
- COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY (complaint)
- ELGIN SALVAGE & SUPPLY (complaint)
- FERMILAB (complaint)
## Summary

THIS IS A CERCLA 106 REMOVAL ACTION. ELGIN SALVAGE IS AN     ACTIVE METALSALVAGING OPERATION IN A SUBURBAN/SMALL CITY     LOCATION ON THE BANKS OFTHE FOX RIVER.  FOR A NUMBER OF      YEARS ELGIN HAS MAINTAINED A BUSINESS BYPURCHASING SCRAP     METAL OR INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS THATHAVE HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF ACCESSIBLE METAL IN THEM, FOR STRIPPING    ORREMOVING THE VALUABLE METAL AND THEN DISCARDING THE WASTE  PRODUCT.  ATONE TIME ELGIN ALSO OPERATED AN INCINERATOR.     THE SITE IS LOCATED ON THE EDGE OF A RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY   AND HAD RECEIVED COMPLAINTS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS OF SMOKE   AND FUMES FROM THE (NOW CLOSED) INCINERATOR.  IEPA AND U.S.  EPA  BECAME INVOLVED IN MONITORING THE SITE.  DURING SOME    TIME IN AUGUST 1991 INITIAL SAMPLING,U.S. EPA FOUND SIGNS OF LEAD DIOXIN AND PCBS.  U.S. EPA ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE AN    ORDER OF CONSENT, BUT THE SITE OWNER/OPERATORS AND MAJOR     PRPS WERE UNCOOPERATIVE.  ON APRIL 19, 1993, U.S. EPA ISSUED AN UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (UAO).  WORK ON THE SITE  IS SET TO BEGIN IN LATE JUNE 1993.  THE PRP GROUP IS         COMPOSED OF: ELGIN SALVAGE, COMMONWEALTH EDISON, AT&T,       ILLINOIS BELL, AND FERMILAB (U.S. NUCLEAR TESTING FACILITY).

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