# CARTER INDUSTRIALS/THE BUDD COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28535`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-1311
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $948K
- **Compliance action $:** $7.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- THE BUDD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS DEFENDANT IS A NON-SETTLER IN THE CARTER INDUSTRIALS    MATTER(DETROIT, MI).  BUDD CO. RECEIVED A  SPECIAL NOTICE    LETTER  FOR RD/RANEGOTIATIONS, BUT DID NOT SIGN THE RD/RA    CONSENT DECREE ENTERED ON06/04/93.  THIS REFERRAL SEEKS TO   RECOVER UNREIMBURSED PAST COSTS ANDANY FUTURE COSTS          ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE.                                    AS BACKGROUND TO THIS REFERRAL, SPECIAL NOTICE LETTERS FOR   ANOPPORTUNITY TO DO RD/RA WORK AT THE CARTER INDUSTRIALS     SITE WERE SENT TO25 PRPS ON NOVEMBER 18, 1991, INCLUDING     BUDD CO. IN JANUARY 1992,SEVERAL OF THE PRPS SUBMITTED A     GOOD FAITH PROPOSAL AND NEGOTIATIONS ONAN RD/RA CONSENT      DECREE BEGAN. U.S. EPA AND THE SETTLING DEFENDANTSREACHED AN AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE ON MARCH 27, 1992.  A CONSENT         DECREEWAS ENTERED ON JUNE 4, 1993.  THE PURPOSE OF THE       REFERRAL FOR A LAWSUITAGAINST THE BUDD COMPANY IS TO RECOVER THOSE COSTS THAT U.S. EPA DID NOTOBTAIN FROM THE SETTLING    DEFENDANTS AND TO OBTAIN A DECLARATORYJUDGEMENT THAT U.S.    EPA IS ENTITLED TO REIMBURSEMENT FOR FUTURE COSTS ATTHE      CARTER SITE. BUDD IS A NON-SETTLING PARTY WHO DISPOSED       OFTRNASFORMERS, HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT, AND SCRAP METAL AT THE  SITE.

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