# INTERSTATE POLLUTION CONTROL
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30251`
- **Case Number:** 05-1997-0290
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $315K
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMEROCK CORPORATION (settlement)
- ANDERSON'S GARAGE (settlement)
- BARBER-COLMAN CO. (settlement)
- BEROL CORPORATION (settlement)
- COLTEC INDUSTRIES, INC. (settlement)
- ELCO INDUSTRIES, INC. (settlement)
- GATES CORPORATION (settlement)
- GREENLEE TEXTRON INC. (settlement)
- INTERSTATE POLLUTION CONTROL (settlement)
- KEYSTONE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC. (settlement)
- LAVERNE E. ANDERSON (settlement)
- LUCILLE ANDERSON (settlement)
- MARGARET JOHNSON (settlement)
- ROCKFORD PRODUCTS CORPORATION (settlement)
- SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION (settlement)
- WOODWARD GOVERNOR CO. (settlement)
## Summary

IPC OPERATED A FACILITY AT THE SITE BETWEEN 1971 AND 1984.   IPC WAS A WASTE OIL RECYCLER, INDUSTRIAL WASTE STORAGE       FACILITY, HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSPORTER. IN THE EARLY 1970'S   IPC OPERATED AN INCINERATOR TO DISPOSE OF HAZARDOUS          SUBSTANCES INCLUDING CYANIDE WASTE. WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITS   AT THE SITE INCLUDED AN ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANK WITH A     100,000 GALLON CAPACITY, SEVEN UNDERGROUD STORAGE TANKS WITH CAPACITIES RANGING FROM 10,000 TO 20,000 GALLONS, AND A      WASTE LAGOON. BOTH THE ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION     AGENCY AN U.S. EPA INVESTIGATED THE SITE AND TOOK SAMPLES    FROM THE SITE. BASED UPON THIS INFORMATION, U.S. EPA DID A   HAZARD RANKING SYSTEM SCORING AT THE SITE AND PLACED THE     SITE ON THE NPL IN 1988. AFTER THIS, U.S. EPA PERFORMED A    SERIES OF SITE ASSESSMENTS AND ISSUED A UAO TO A GROUP OF    PRP'S TO PERFORM CERTAIN REMOVAL ACTIVITIES. THE UAO WAS     ISSUED IN 1991, AND THE PRP'S PERFORMED THE SURFACE REMOVAL  WITH U.S. EPA OVERSIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME, THE STATE OF      ILLINOIS ENTERED INTO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH U.S. EPA  TO PERFORM A PRP SEARCH AND TO ISSUE SPECIAL NOTICE AND      NEGOTIATE A CONSENT DECREE FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE RI/FS. IN  1991, A GROUP OF PRP'S ENTERED INTO A PARTIAL CONSENT DECREE WITH THE STATE OF ILLINOIS FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE RI/FS.     U.S. EPA HAS APPROXIMATELY $400,000 IN OUTSTANDING COSTS FOR RESPONSE ACTION TAKEN AT THE SITE. THESE COSTS SHOULD BE     COLLECTED TO REIMBURSE THE FUND AND 

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