# FOUR COUNTY LANDFILL
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33263`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0638
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN STANDARD, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- APPLETON ELECTRIC (settlement)
- ARVINMERITOR, INC. (settlement)
- AT&T CORP./LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
- CHEM-MET SERVICES, INC.
- CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY
- CITY OF KOKOMO
- CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION (settlement)
- CONTINENTAL STEEL
- CORNING INC. (settlement)
- CUMMINGS ENGINE COMPANY (settlement)
- DANA CORPORATION (settlement)
- DART TRUCKING ENTITIES (settlement)
- DE-WELL PRODUCTS, INC., D/B/A INVERNESS
- DELTA FAUCET COMPANY (settlement)
- DU-WELL PRODUCTS, INC. (settlement)
- EATON CORPORATION, F/K/A AEROQUIP CORP. (settlement)
- ELAN ASSOCIATES
- ELECTROCHEMICAL COATINGS INC (settlement)
- ENVIRO CHEMICAL CORP.
- ENVIRONMENTAL WASTE CONTROL
- EXIDE CORPORATION (settlement)
- FOUR COUNTY LANDFILL
- GENCORP (GENERAL TIRE) (settlement)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC (settlement)
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, DELCO (settlement)
- GLOBE VALVE CORPORATION (settlement)
- GRAND HAVEN BRASS FOUNDRY (settlement)
- INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
- INLAND STEEL COMPANY (settlement)
- KAWNEER COMPANY, INC. (settlement)
- KOKOMO SALVAGE TREATMENT (settlement)
- LTV STEEL COMPANY/REPUBLIC STEEL (settlement)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (settlement)
- METALWORKING LUBRICANTS COMPANY (settlement)
- MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY (settlement)
- MUELLER INDUSTRIES (settlement)
- NAVAL WEAPONS SUPPORT CENTER
- NORTH STAR STEEL (settlement)
- PERMA-FIX ENVIORNMENTAL SERVICES, INC. (settlement)
- PERMA-FIX OF MICHIGAN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- PRODUCTION PLATED PLASTICS, INC.
- QUEMETCO, INC.
- RCA CORPORATION (settlement)
- REILLY INDUSTRIES (settlement)
- ROADMASTER CORP.
- RSR CORPORATION (settlement)
- S & W WASTE, INC.
- SAFETY KLEEN, AS SUCCESSOR TO GSX (settlement)
- SENECA WIRE & MANUFACTURING (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL SEEKS RECOVERY OF COSTS INCURRED BY U.S. EPA/  REGION 5 IN SUPPORT OF A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION, FEASIBILITY STUDY AND REMEDY SELECTION FOR THE FOUR COUNTY LANDFILL SITE IN RURAL FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA.                               THE LANDFILL WAS INITIALLY AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT ONLY MUNI- CIPAL WASTE WHEN IT BEGAN OPERATING IN 1972 OR 1973, BUT BY  THE EARLY 1980'S ACCEPTED PRIMARILY INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS     WASTES.  USEPA INITIATED THE HRS SCORING PROCESS FOR PLACE-  MENT OF THE SITE ON THE NPL EARLY IN THE 1990S, BUT BY JANU- ARY 1992, REGION 5 AGREED THAT THE STATE OF INDIANA SHOULD   ADDRESS THE SITE AS A STATE ENFORCEMENT LEAD UNDER STATE     LEGAL AUTHORITIES.  THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL  MANAGEMENT CONCLUDED AN AGREEMENT FOR AN RI/FS WITH A GROUP  OF NEARLY 40 PRPS IN AUGUST 1993.  THE PRP GROUP PERFORMED   RI/FSS FOR OU 1 AND 2, AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR OU 1 AND  2.  IDEM ISSUED A ROD FOR OU1 THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED IN 1999.  IDEM ISSUED A PROPOSED PLAN FOR OU2 IN EARLY 2001.             USEPA HAS NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN THE REMEDY CONSTRUCTION,    BUT ASSISTED THE EFFORTS OF THE STATE AND THE PRP GROUP BY   COMPLETING A WASTE-IN TRANSACTIONAL DATABASE AND VOLUMETRIC  RANKING IN 1994, AND BY REVIEWING DOCUMENTS GENERATED BY     PRPS AND IDEM IN THE PRE-REMEDIAL PROCESS, INCLUDING THE     REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION REPORTS, THE FEASIBILITY STUDIES, AND THE ROD FOR OU1.  REGION 5 ANTICIPATES MOST ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR REVIEW OF THE ROD FOR OU2 WHEN I

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