# CROPWELL LEASING COMPANY AND DRAVO BASIC MATERIALS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35765`
- **Case Number:** 06-1994-0054
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $175K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- B & H TOWING
- CROPWELL LEASING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DRAVO BASIC MATERIALS COMPANY, INC.
- NMS, INC.
## Summary

ON JAN. 26, 1992, A BARGE IN TOW OF THE M/V SCAUP COLLIDED   WITH A BARGE IN TOW  OF THE M/V DE LASALLE. THIS COLLISION   OCCURRED AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE INTRACOASTALWATERWAY     AND THE WAX LAKE OUTLET, NEAR MORGAN CITY, LA. THE IMPACT    CAUSED THE BARGE NMS 1905 IN TOW OF THE M/V DE LASALLE TO    SPILL ABOUT 100, 000 GALLONS OF STYRENE, A CERCLA HAZARDOUS  SUBSTANCE, INTO THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY. THE M/V SCAUP WAS OWNED BY THE CROPWELL LEASING COMPANY, AND CHARTERED TO      DRAVO BASIC MATERIALS COMPANY, INC. (HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVE- LY DRAVO). THE M/V DE LASALLE WAS OWNED BY NATIONAL MARINA   SERVICES INC.AND CHARTERED TO B & H TOWING, INC. (HEREIN-    AFTER COLLECTIVELY NMS). THE BARGE NMS 1905, FROM WHICH THE  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE WAS SPILLED, WAS OWNED BY NMS.           A SHORT TIME AFTER THE COLLISION, BOTH DRAVO AND NMS FILED   LIMITATION OF LIABILITY PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO THE SHIPOWN- ER'S LIMITATION OF LIABILITY ACT, 46 U.S.C. APP. SEC. 183 ET SEQ. THESE LIMITATION PROCEEDINGS WERE ORDERED CONSOLIDATED  IN MAY 1992. THE GOVERNMENT HAS FILED A CERCLA CLAIM, UNDER  42 U.S.C. SEC. 9607, AGAINST THE DISCHARGING VESSEL, AND     THAT CASE WAS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE CASE AGAINST THE NONDIS- CHARGING VESSEL.                                             THE GOVERNMENT FILED A CLAIM AND ANSWER IN DRAVO'S LIMITA-   TION PROCEEDING, SEEKING NATURAL RESOURCES DAMAGES AND RE-   MOVAL COSTSPURSUANT TO CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. SEC. 9607, THE FED- ERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT (FW

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