# CANNELTON INDUSTRIES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31191`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0608
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.70M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CANNELTON INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CYPRUS AMAX MINERALS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL REQUESTS INITIATION OF LITIGATION TO RECOVER   RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED AT THE CANNELTON INDUSTRIES SITE IN  SAULT STE. MARIE, MICHIGAN (THE SITE).  THE SITE, WHICH IS   LISTED ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL), WAS THE        LOCATION OF A TANNERY FACTORY.  THE WASTE FROM THIS OPERA-   TION CONTAMINATED THE SURROUNDING SOIL, SEDIMENT AND GROUND- WATER.  THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY    (U.S. EPA OR EPA) CONDUCTED SEVERAL REMOVAL ACTIONS AT THE   SITE, AS WELL AS A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY    STUDY (RI/FS).  A RECORD OF DECISION (ROD) FOR THE SITE WAS  ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1992, AND A ROD AMANDMENT WAS        PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1996.  THE POTENTIAL RESPONSIBLE  PARTY (PRP), WHILE NOT CONDUCTING THE RI/FS, DID AGREE IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT (AOC) TO CONDUCT THE         REMEDIAL DESIGN OF THE SELECTED REMEDY AND, BY A UNILATERAL  ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (1998 UAO), TO CONDUCT THE REMEDIAL     ACTION.  AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1997, U.S. EPA HAS INCURRED      $2,650,611.77 IN UNIMBURSED RESPONSE COSTS AT THE SITE.      U.S. EPA'S OVERSIGHT COSTS FOR THE REMEDIAL DESIGN AND       REMEDIAL ACTION ARE BEING PAID PURSUANT TO THE ISSUED AOC    AND 1990 UAO, EXCEPT FOR A CHALLENGE TO ANNUAL ALLOCATION    COSTS, WHICH TOTAL $40,556.14.  THIS AMOUNT IS INCLUDED IN   THE ABOVE FIGURE OF $2,650,611.77 FOR UNREIMBURSED COSTS.    THUS, THE ONLY COSTS SOUGHT IN THIS REFERRAL BY EPA ARE PAST COSTS.  THE CANNELTON INDUSTRIES, IN

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