# LENZ OIL SERVICE, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31504`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0134
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.24M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LENZ OIL SERVICE, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN EARLY-OUT (PRE-ROD) CASH-OUT DE MINIMIS ADMINI-   STRATIVE SETTLEMENT WITH 619 PARTIES FOR PAST AND ANTICI-    PATED FUTURE COSTS RELATED TO THE SITE.  THE SITE OPERATED   AS A WASTE OIL AND SOLVENT RECYCLING FACILITY FROM APPROXI-  MATELY 1961 UNTIL OCTOBER 1985.  DURING ITS OPERATIONS, OILS AND SOLVENTS WERE RELEASED ONTO THE SOILS OF THE FACILITY    THROUGH CINDER-LINED SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS, AND LEAKS FROM    OPERATING ACTIVITIES, TANKS AND OTHER CONTAINERS.  BETWEEN   1985 AND 1988, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CONDUCTED AN EMERGENCY  RESPONSE AT THE LENZ FACILITY (DEFINED AS THE PROPERTY OWNED BY LENZ), INCINERATING CONTAMINATED SOILS AND DECONTAMINA-   TING EQUIPMENT.  ILLINOIS NOMINATED THE SITE FOR THE NPL IN  1988 DUE TO SUB-SURFACE LNAPL CONTAMINATION WHICH HAD MIGRA- TED OFF OF THEFACILITY PROPERTY.  ILLINOIS ENTERED INTO      FOUR STATE CONSENT DECREES WITH APPROXIMATELY 220 PRPS       BETWEEN 1988 AND 1992, RECOVERING APPROXIMATELY $4 MILLION   OF THE APPROXIMATELY $9 MILLION IN ITS COST RELATED TO THE   SITE.

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