# PEERLESS PLATING
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29156`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0138
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $158K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MUSSELMAN, SCOTT A. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CASE REFERRED FOR FILING A COST RECOVERY LAWSUIT PURSUANT TO SECTION                                                      107(A) OF CERCLA.  TOTAL ESTIMATED UNREIMBURSED RESPONSE     COSTS ARE                                                    $9,000,000.  USEPA IS CURRRENTLY CONDUCTING THE RD/RA AT THE SITE.  THE                                                   DEFENDANT IS SCOTT MUSSELMAN, OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE      PEERLESS PLATING                                             CO., INC.  ELECTROPLATING WASTEWATERS WERE DISPOSED OF INTO  UNLINED                                                      SEEPAGE LAGOONS AT THE SITE, CAUSING CONTAMINATION OF THE    SOILS AND                                                    GROUNDWATER.  THE PEERLESS PLATING CO. IS BANKRUPT AND USEPA IS PURSUING                                                  MR. MUSSELMAN AS AN INDIVIDUAL.

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