# CHICAGO INDUSTRIAL WASTE HAULERS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29671`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0197
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $75K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHICAGO INDUSTRIAL WASTE HAULERS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA ENTERED INTO A 122(H)(1) AGREEMENT WITH CHICAGO INDUSTRI AL WASTE HAULERS TO RECOVER PAST RESPONSE COSTS AND TO       RESOLVE THE LIABILITY OF CIWH FOR SUCH COSTS.  EPA ALLEGED T HAT HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES WERE PRESENT AT THE SITE AND THAT   SUCH HAXARDOUS SUBSTANCES HAD BEEN OR WERE THREATENED TO BE  RELEASED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.  EPA UNDERTOOK A RESPONSE     ACTION AT THE SITE AND HAD INCURRED RESPONSE COSTS.  CIWH    HAS MADE MONTHLY PAYMENTS AND PAID IN FULL.

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