# MAIO, MICHAEL A./BANKRUPTCY (AVANTI SITE)
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30087`
- **Case Number:** 05-1997-0057
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $10K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MAIO, MICHAEL A. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BANKRUPCTY REFERRAL AGAINST MICHAEL A. MAIO, FORMER          PRESIDENT AND                                                SHAREHOLDER OF AVANTI DEVELOPMENT, INC., AND PRIOR TO THAT   GENERAL                                                      PARTNER IN BIG V ASSOCIATES, NOW DISSOLVED.  AVANTI IS THE   CURRENT OWNER OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AT THE AVANTI SUPERFUND SITE, WHILE BIG V WAS THE PRIOR OWNER.  BOTH THE INDUSTRIAL  PROPERTY AND THE SURROUNDING                                 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES ARE SUBJECT TO A CONTINUING REMOVAL   ACTION BEING                                                 PERFORMED BY A NUMBER OF PRPS, PURSUANT TO ADMINISTRATIVE    ORDERS ISSUED                                                BY EPA.  AVANTI HAS NOT COMPLIED WITH THE FIRST ORDER,       ISSUED MARCH 29,                                             1994.  MR. MAIO IS A RESPONDENT TO A  PARTICIPATE AND        COORDINATE  ORDER, ISSUED MARCH 6, 1996, PURSUANT TO CERCLA  106, AND HAS NOT DEMONSTRATED                                AN INTENT TO COMPLY.                                         MR. MAIO'S LIABILITY UNDER CERCLA 107 ARISES FROM HIS STATUS AS A FORMER GENERAL PARTNER IN A DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP THAT  WAS AN OWNER OF A                                            FACILITY AT THE TIME THAT LEAD, A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, WAS   DISPOSED OF                                                  AT THE FACILITY.                                             SINCE MARCH 29, 1994, EPA HAS BEEN O

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