# PETRO PROCESSORS OF LA
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33679`
- **Case Number:** 06-1980-0015
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $600K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PETRO PROCESSORS OF LA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

PETRO PROCESSORS OF LA, INC. EAST BATON ROUGE, LA. DOW       CHEM CO, EXXON CORP, EXXON CHEM CO, UNIROYAL CORP, SHELL     CHEM CORP, ALLIED CHEM CORP, USS CHEM CO, RUBICON CHEM       CORP, ETHYL CORP, COPOLYMER RUBBER & CHEM CORP, & AMER       HOECHST CO FILED 7/15/80, CIVIL ACTION #80358B, US DIST      CT OF THE MID DISCTRICT OF LA, PETRO PROCESSOR OF LA, IS     THE OWNER & OPERATOR OF 2 WSTE DISPOSAL SITES IN E. BATON    ROUGE, LA.  THE CO & 11 GENERATOR DEFENDANTS ARE ALLEGED     TO HAVE CREATED A SITUAT'N WHERE DANGEROUS CONCENTRAT'NS     OF CHEM HAVE BEEN RELEASED INTO SURFACE WTRS, THREATENING    DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES. IN ADDIT'N IT IS ALLEGED THAT       SOIL, PLNTS, FISH & ANIMALS HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED,          THEREBY THREATING FOOD CHAIN. 11 GENERATORS WERE NAMED AS    HAVING SENT THEIR WASTES FOR DISPOSAL TO THE BROOKLAWN       SITE. THEY ARE: DOW, EXXON CORP, EXXON CHEM CO.,             UNIROYAL, SHELL, ALLIED CHEM, U.S.S CHEM, RUBICON CHEM,      ETHYL CORP, COPOLYMER RUBBER & CHEM CORP, & AMER HOESCHST    CO. RELIEF IS SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SEC 7003 OF RCRA (THE       WASTES ARE HAZARDOUS & POSE AN IMMINENT & SUBSTANTIAL        ENDANGERMNT TO HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMNT) SEC 504 OF THE       CLEAN WATER ACT (THE WSTES ARE A POLLUTION SOURCE & ARE      BEING DISCHARGED INTO NAVIGABLE WATERS); SEC 301 OF THE      CLEAN WATER ACT (THE WASTES ARE POLLUTANTS & ARE BEING       DISCHARGED W/OUT A PERMIT); SEC 13 OF THE REFUSE ACT (THE    WASTES ARE REFUSE & ARE DISCHARGED I

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