# AMERITECH CORP., ET AL/COM ED, AT&T, LUCENT,ELGIN
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29762`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0314
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $375K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERITECH (complaint) (settlement)
- AT&T (settlement)
- COMMONWEALTH EDISON (complaint) (settlement)
- ELGIN SALVAGE AND SUPPLY CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- FERMILAB-UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (settlement)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ELGIN SALVAGE AND SUPPLY IS A SCRAP METAL RECYCLING YARD IN  ELGIN, IL IN                                                 APRIL 1993, U.S.EPA ISSUED A CERCLA 106 ORDER TO ELGIN       SALVAGE (AS OWNER                                            OPERATOR), AND FOUR OTHER PARTIES, AT&T, AMERITECH,          COMMONWEALTH EDISON                                          AND FERMILAB (URA), AS GENERATORS.  THE UAIO ORDERED A CLEAN UP OF THE                                                    SITE FOR CONTAMINATED LEVELS OF LEAD, PCBS AND DIOXIN.       BETWEEN 1993 AND                                             FEB. 1995, THE PARTIES CONDUCTED THE CLEAN UP.  U.S. EPA     INCURRED                                                     APPROXIMATELY $343,000 IN OVERSIGHT COSTS.  THE PRPS         RECEIVED A BILL FOR                                          OVERSIGHT COSTS IN AUGUST AND DECEMBER 1995, BUT REFUSED TO  PAY THEM                                                     CITING TO THEM ROHM V. HAAS DECISION FROM THE FEDERAL COURT  IN THE 3RD                                                   CIRCUIT CT. OF APPEALS.  U.S. EPA CONTINUED TO TRY TO        SPECIFICALLY                                                 IDENTIFY COSTS AND SEEK COMPLIANCE OF THE PRPS WITH THE UAO.  THE PRPS                                                    CONTINUED TO REFUSE.  U.S. EPA THEN DETERMINED TO REFER THE  CASE TO U.S.                                                 DOJ.  U.S. EPA ALSO SEEKS PUNITIVE D

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