# BURGESS, INC. SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28419`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0978
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BURGESS, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

A UAO WAS ISSUED ON AUGUST 28, 1991 TO 5 PRPS TO CONDUCT     REMOVAL ACTIONS AT THE SITE.  PREVIOUS REMOVAL ACTION        ACTIVITY HAD BEEN UNDERTAKEN BY EPA PRIOR TO ISSUANCE OF THE UAO.                                                         THE FACILITY IS THE SITE OF A FORMER BATTERY MANUFACTURING   OPERATION WHICH COMMENCED BUSINESS IN 1926.  THE SITE COVERS APPROXIMATELY 4 ACRES AND CONTAINS 3 BUILDINGS.  BURGESS,    INC., FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY IN 1989 AND THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD AT AUCTION AROUND NOVEMBER 1989.  THE SITE INCLUDED          UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS, LAB PACK MATERIALS, A CYANIDE     PLATING SYSTEM, ASBESTOS AND SHOCK SENSITIVE MATERIALS AND   EXPLOSIVES. OVER 300 DRUMS WERE STAGED AT THE SITE ALONG     WITH 5300 POUNDS OF SURPLUS LAB CHEMICALS.  A FIRE OCCURRED  AT THE FACILITY IN 1990 AND IN JUNE 1990 EPA COMMENCED       REMOVAL ACTIVITIES AT THE SITE.                              THE UAO IS BEING COMPLIED WITH BY GOULD, INC., BUT OTHER     HAVE DECLINED.                                               A 106(B) PENALTY AND 107 REFERRAL IS CONTEMPLATED FOR EPA'S  PAST/OVERSIGHT RESPONSE COSTS IN THE 4Q OF 1993.

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