# RELIABLE COATINGS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35851`
- **Case Number:** 06-1994-0140
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $93K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RELIABLE COATINGS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 104(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPON-    SE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C.       SEC. 9604(A).                                             2. RELIABLE COATINGS, INC.                                      13108 EULESS STREET                                          EULESS, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS                                FACILITY I.D. NO. TXD054375027                               CATEGORY OF REMOVAL: TIME CRITICAL                           SITE I.D.: AA                                             3. RELIABLE COATINGS WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE STORAGE REGULA-    TIONS OF RCRA. APPROXIMATELY  1,800 DRUMS CONTAINING         PAINT WASTES, SOLVENTS (ETHER, ALCOHOL AND XYLENE), SLUD-    GES, AND RESINS WERE FOUND ON THE PROPERTY. ADDITIONALLY,    APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED 400-GALLON TOTES AND EIGHT 700-    GALLON MIXING VATS CONTAINING THE SAME WASTE MATERIALS       AND SOLVENTS WERE FOUND ON THE SITE, AND A FULL 1,000-       GALLON VAT, TWO 3,000-GALLON TANKS, AND THOUSANDS OF         SMALLER CONTAINERS WERE ALSO PRESENT. NUMEROUS CONTAINERS    WITH HAXARDOUS WASTE LABELS WERE DISTRIBUTED AMONG SIMIL-    AR CONTAINERS THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY. CONTAINERS WERE       HAPHAZARDLY STORED INSIDE THE MANUFACTURING BUILDING, BE-    NEATH A METAL CANOPY AND ON AN EXPOSED CONCRETE PAD SOUTH    AND EAST OF THE BUILDING. SOME OF THESE CONTAINERS HAD       FALLEN AND THEIR CONTENTS HAD SPILLED TO THE SURRONDING      AREAS.                           

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