# DOVER CHEMICAL CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32914`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0258
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $149K
- **Compliance action $:** $6.96M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOVER CHEMICAL CORPORATION (settlement)
## Summary

THE DOVER CHEMICAL SITE IS LOCATED IN TUSCAWARS COUNTY, IN   EAST CENTRAL OHIO.  DOVER CHEMICAL CORPORATION, JUST OFF OF  INTERSTATE 77, OWNS FOUR PARCELS OF LAND NEAR THE CITY OF    DOVER CITY LIMITS THAT TOTAL APPROXIMATELY 60 ACRES.           SINCE 1950, DOVER CHEMICAL HAS OPERATED A MANUFACTURING    FACILITY IN DOVER, OHIO.  THE FACILITY PRODUCES PHENYL       PHOSPHITES AND CHLORINATED PARAFFIN PRODUCTS THAT ARE USED   IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PRESSURE LUBRICANTS, PLASTICIZERS, AND FLAME RETARDANTS FOR VINYL PRODUCTS.  SITE ACTIVITIES FROM   THE 1950S TO THE EARLY 1970S INTRODUCED SITE-RELATED         CONSTITUENTS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE VICINITY OF THE     DOVER CHEMICAL PLANT.                                          BASED ON THE RI/FS INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN 1991, THE U.S. EPA REQUESTED THAT DOVER CHEMICAL TAKE INTERIM ACTIONS TO    REDUCE THE MOBILITY AND POTENTIAL FOR CONTACT WITH SOILS     CONTAINING POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXINS(PCDDS) AND DIBEN-  ZOFURANS (PCDFS).  DOVER AND U.S. EPA ENTERED INTO AN        ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT (AOC) TO CONDUCT THIS WORK.  THIS ACTION WAS TAKEN TO MITIGATE A DIRECT CONTACT RISK TO   WORKERS IN THE ON-SITE SOILS AT THE SITE AND DID NOT ADDRESS POTENTIAL RISK ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS AT THE SITE.                                                      ON MAY 10, 1993, U.S. EPA PROPOSED THE DOVER CHEMICAL      CORPORATION SITE FOR INCLUSION ON THE NPL BUT HAS NEVER BEEN FINALIZED ON THE NPL.               

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