# TAR CREEK
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34241`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0213
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.27M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASARCO INCORP (complaint) (settlement)
- AZCON CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- BARNEY WATERS (complaint) (settlement)
- BECK CO/BUSINESS TRUST FOR BECK (complaint) (settlement)
- CHILDRESS ROYALTY CO (complaint) (settlement)
- DEWEY S. SIMS ESTATE (complaint) (settlement)
- EAGLE PICHER INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- GAROLD BROWN (complaint) (settlement)
- HENRY EBY (complaint) (settlement)
- LTV JONES & LAUGHLIN CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- MINING CO (complaint) (settlement)
- N L INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- O. K. TUCKER (complaint) (settlement)
- ORVILLE MOORE (complaint) (settlement)
- ROBERT J CONRAD, SR (complaint) (settlement)
- SAM DRYER (complaint) (settlement)
- ST. JOE MINERALS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- TOM KISER (complaint) (settlement)
- TRI-STATE ZINC, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- UNITED AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- W. A. BREWER (complaint) (settlement)
- YOUNGSTOWN SHEET & TUBE CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

07/30/91:  THE TAR CREEK SITE IS A FORMER LEAD AND ZINC    MINING AREA COVERING APPROXIMATELY FORTY SQUARE MILES IN     NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA.  EPA FILED SUIT AGAINST SEVERAL          COMPANIES AND IS SEEKING REPAYMENT OF PAST COSTS.  THE       CONSENT AGREEMENT CALLS FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROXIMATELY     $1.3 MILLION IN PAST COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESPONSE      ACTIONS CARRIED OUT BY EPA.

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