# LAKE SALVAGE SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31517`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0149
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $78K
- **Compliance action $:** $400K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LAKE SALVAGE SITE (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTON SYSTEMS, INC.
- MAGNE TEK, INC.
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORP.
- SIMKIN  IRWIN
- SIMKIN, ALEX
- SIMKIN, EDWARD
## Summary

UNDER THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT, THESE PARTIES WOULD RE-       IMBURSE THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY    ( U.S. EPA $77,785.15 FOR RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED PER-       FORMING A REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE.  THIS REPRESENTS 100%  OF U.S. EPA'S READILY DOCUMENTABLE COSTS AT THE SITE AND     77.5% OF ALL RESPONSE COSTS CONTAINED IN U.S. EPA'S ACCOUNT- ING SYSTEM.  UNDER THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT, THE PRP'S ALSO   RESOLVE ALL POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION CLAIMS THEY MAY HAVE      AGAINST EACH OTHER.                                          ONE OF THE PRP--LITTON SYSTEMS INC.---PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED   THE SECOND PHASE OF THE REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE AT A      COST OF APPROXIMATELY $384,000.  THUS, UPON APPROVAL OF THIS PROPOSED SETTLEMENT, PRPS WILL HAVE PAID 95% OF THE COST OF  REMOVAL ACTIONS NECESSARY AT THE SITE.                       ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1994, U.S. EPA ENTERED AN ADMINISTRATIVE    ORDER ON CONSENT ( AOC ) WITH LITTON.  UNDER THAT AOC,       LITTON AGREED TO: (1) DISPOSE OF THE INCINERATOR ASH AND     OTHER DIOXIN-CONTAMINATED MATERIAL CONSOLIDATED IN THE       ROLLOFF BOX; (2) DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF CON-     TAMINATION OF THE INCINERATORS AND OFFICE BUILDING;          (3) DEMOLISH THE BUILDINGS OR OTHERWISE CLEAN THE BUILDINGS  TO ACCEPTABLE LEVELS; (4) PROVIDE FOR PROPER DISPOSAL OF     ASH, SOIL AND OTHER MATERIAL AT THE DITE CONTAMINATED WITH   LEAD, PCBS OR DIOXINS; (5) CONDUCT SURFACE SOIL SAMPLING AT  NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES TO DETERMINE 

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