# ARKWOOD, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34185`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CC  BUD  GRISHAM (complaint)
- HALLIE C. ORMOND (complaint)
- MARY F. BURKE (complaint)
## Summary

THE ARKWOOD, INC, SITE COMPRISES APPROX 20 ACRES ADJACENT TO THE MISSOURI-PACIFIC CRICKET RAILROAD.  THE SITE, LOCATED    SOUTH OF OMAHA IN BOONE CTY, ARK, OPERATED AS A COMMERCIAL   WOOD PRESERVING FACILITY FROM THE EARLY 1960S UNTIL 1984.    BOTH PENTACHLOROPHENOL AND CREOSOTE WERE USED AS WOOD PRE-   SERVATIVES AND WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE.                 *                                                            THE SITE WAS PROPOSED FOR ADDITION TO THE NAT'L PRIORITIES   LIST IN SEPT 1985.  A RESPONSIBLE PARTY, MASS MERCH, INC.    IS PERFORMING UNDER AN AO ON CONSENT TO PREPARE AN RI/FS.    REMEDIAL ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN DELAYED BECAUSE THE SITE OWNER AND  LEGAL AGENT, CC GRISHAM, HAS DENIED SITE ACCESS TO MMI  MR. GRISHAM.  ALSO, HE HAS UNDERTAKEN ACTIONS AT THE SITE    WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE RI/FS PROCESS.  THE EPA HAS  REASON TO BELIEVE THAT MR. ORMOND AND MR. GRISHAM MAY UNDER- TAKE FURTHER ON-SITE ACTIONS WHICH COULD IMPEDE THE PROGRESS OF THE RI/FS.                                                OBJECTIVES OF LITIGATION:                                    THE FIRST OBJECTIVE OF THIS ACTION IS TO OBTAIN AN ORDER DIR ECTED TO THE PROPERTY OWNER AND TO THE AGENT FOR THE PRO-    PERTY OWNER TO ALLOW MMI ACCESS TO THE SITE FOR THE PURPOSE  OF CONDUCTING THE RI/FS.  THE AGENCY ALSO SEEKS AN INJUNC-   TION PROHIBITING THE PROPERTY OWNER AND HIS AGENT FROM PER-  FORMING ACTIONS, SUCH AS EARTH MOVING WORK, WHICH ARE INCOM- PATIBLE WITH THE ON-SITE RI/FS PROCE

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