# BAYOU SORREL SITE AKA EPA, INC. SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34237`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0209
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $800K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CIBA GEIGY (complaint) (settlement)
- ENVIRONMENT PURIFICATION ADVANCEMENT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BAYOU SORREL IS A NPL SITE NEAR BAYOU SORREL, LA.  THE ROD   FOR THE SITE WAS SIGNED DURING THE 30-DAY WINDOW AND CALLS   FOR A CAP AND SLURRY WALL REMEDIAL ACTION.  A PARTIAL SETTLE MENT HAS BEEN REACHED WHEREBY THE BAYOU SORREL TASK FORCE    WILL IMPLEMENT THE REMEDY.  THE AGREEMENT IS APPROXIMATELY   A 97% SETTLEMENT.  A COST RECOVERY ACTION NEEDS TO BE        INITIATED TO ENTER THE PARTIAL CONSENT DECREE AND TO RECOVER THE REMAINING 3% IN COSTS.                                   *                                                            BACKGROUND:                                                  THIS LITIGATION REPORT REQUESTS THAT DOJ FILE A COST-RE-     COVERY ACTION UNDER CERCLA AGAINST THE FORMER OPERATOR OF    THE BAYOU SORREL SITE AND AGAINST CERTAIN GENERATORS.        *                                                            THE BAYOU SORREL SITE IS A FORMER COMMERCIAL DISPOSAL FACI-  LITY WHICH WAS OPERATED UNDER THE NAME ENVIRON. PURIFICATION ADVANCEMENT, INC. AKA EPA, INC.  THE FACILITY WAS CLOSED BY  THE LA DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES IN 1979 AND 1980,  AS A RESULT OF ENFORCEMENT ACTION TAKEN WHEN A TRUCK DRIVER  WAS KILLED DUE TO AN ADVERSE REACTION WHICH OCCURRED WHILE   UNLOADING A LOAD OF CHEMICAL WASTES.                         *                                                            THE BSTF APPROACHED EPA AND LA DURING THE FALL OF 1986 AND   REPRESENTATIVES FROM LA, REG 6, EPA-HQ MET WITH THE BSTF     AND REACHED AND AGREEMENT OF THE REM

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