# STANDARD SCRAP SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31888`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0588
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $370K
- **Compliance action $:** $370K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- STANDARD SCRAP SITE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CERCLA SECTION 122(H)(1) ADMINISTRATIVE PAST COST  RECOVERY SETTLEMENT ( AGREEMENT ) FOR THE STANDARD SCRAP     CERCLA REMOVAL ACTION SITE ( SITE ).  THE SITE IS A SCRAP    METAL RECLAMATION AND SHREDDING FACILITY LOCATED AT 4004-    4020 S. WENTHWORTH AND 4000-4027 S. WELLS, CHICAGO, COOK     COUNTY, ILLINOIS.  IT WAS THE SUBJECT OF A FEDERALLY FUNDED  REMOVAL ACTION COMMENCED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1994 AND COMPLETED ON JANUARY 30, 1996.  EPA'S OUTSTANDING RESPONSE COSTS,      INCLUDING PREJUDGEMENT INTEREST, ARE $3,895,926.94 (THROUGH  JUNE 30, 1998). EPA HAS IDENTIFIED APPROXIMATELY 305 PRPS    IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE, INCLUDING THE 3 OWNERS/OPERAT-  ORS OF THE SITE.  EPA REFERRED, AND DOJ FILED IN THE NORTH-  ERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, A CERCLA COST RECOVERY AND CERCLA  AND CAA CIVIL PENALTY ACTION AGAINST THE 3 OWNERS/OPERATOR   OF THE SITE.  SEE U.S. V STEVEN COHEN ET AL., CIV. NO 96C    7801.  THAT ACTION IS ONGOING.  HOWEVER, BASED ON EXTENSIVE  INFORMATION OBTAINED DURING DISCOVERY, IT IS APPARENT THAT   THE OWNERS/OPERATORS DO NOT HAVE THE FINANIAL RESOURCES TO   SATISFY EPS'S OUTSTANDING RESPONSE COST CLAIMS OR EPA'S      PUNITIVE CLAIMS.  THE OWNER/OPERATORS ARE NOT PARTICIPANTS   IN THIS AGREEMENT.  THE REMAINING 302 PRPS WHO HAVE BEEN     IDENTIFIED ARE POTENTIALLY LIABLE AS ARRANGERS UNDER SECTION 107(A)(3) OF CERCLA.  OF THESE PRPS, AT LEAST 34 ARE EITHER  NO LONGER IN EXISTENCEE OR NOT FINANCIALLY VIABLE.  IN       ADDITION, IT APPEARS THAT A SUBSTANT

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