# CRYSTAL CHEMICAL
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34352`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0108
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.00M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- VOLUNTARY PURCHASING GROUPS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NEW REFERRAL SENT TO HEADQUARTERS FOR 107 COST RECOVERY      ACTION THE REFERRAL RECEIVED BY HQ ON 1/11/88 SUPERCEDES     AND REPLACES THE REFERRAL OF JULY 9, 1982, WHICH WAS         TREATED AS A BANKRUPTCY REFERRAL BY DOJ AND WAS CLOSED OUT   IN 1985.  BANKRUPTCY SETTLEMENT EFFECTIVE 6/7/84.            *                                                            DATA SHEET:                                                  VIOLATIONS:                                                  A RELEASE OR THREAT OF RELEASE OF HAZ SUBSTANCES FROM A      FACILITY WHICH REQUIRED RESPONSE BY US EPA UNDER SECTION     104 OF CERCLA, 42 USC 9604.                                  *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT:                                RECOVERY OF COSTS OF THE US AND THE STATE OF TX FOR RESPONSE TAKEN AT THE CRYSTAL CHEMICAL FACILITY LOCATED AT ROGERDALE  ROAD IN HOUSTON, TX PURSUANT TO SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA     TOTALLING JUST UNDER $2 MILLION.                             *                                                            RECENT CONTACTS W/DEFENDANTS:                                ALL PRPS WERE NOTIFIED OF THE EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION, THE  PERFORMANCE OF THE ORIGINAL RI/FS & ALL SUBSEQUENT ACTIONS.  PRP/LANDOWNER SOUTHERN PACIFIC EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN CON- DUCTING THE REMEDIAL ACTION ONCE EPA CHOSE A REMEDY.  NEGO-  TIATIONS WERE UNDER WAY WHEN THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND    REAUTHORIZATION ACT WAS PASSED IN OC

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