# LITHIUM OF LUBBOCK
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36072`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0200
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $595K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALTUS CORPORATION
- BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- DEFENSE REUTILIZATION AND MARKETING SERV
- LITHIUM OF LUBBOCK (complaint) (settlement)
- U.S. COAST GUARD
- WEST TEXAS WAREHOUSE
## Summary

1. SECTION 122(H) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPON-    SE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980 ( CERCLA ),      42 U.S.C. SEC. 9622(H).                                   2. LITHIUM OF LUBBOCK SITE                                      2301 AVENUE C                                                LUBBOCK, TEXAS                                            3. THE SITE CONSISTS OF A WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE IN WHICH BAT-     TERIES AND WASTE WERE ABANDONED. THE ABANDONED BATTERIES     AND WASTE CONTAINED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES. EPA FOUND THAT     THERE HAD BEEN A RELEASE OR THREAT OF RELEASE OF HAZARD-     OUS SUBSTANCES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE SITE.           EPA CONDUCTED A RESPONSE ACTION FROM JUNE UNTIL NOV. OF      1992, WHICH CONSISTED OF SITE STABILIZATION, PACKING         LITHIUM BATTERIES IN OIL, SAMPLING OF WASTE MATERIALS,       REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, AND DECON-     TAMINATION OF THE SITE. THE RESPONSE ACTION COST EPA         $636,177.72.                                              4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA, EPA      IS AUTHORIZED TO RECOVER, FROM POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE       PARTIES, THE COSTS IT HAS INCURRED IN CONDUCTING A RE-       SPONSE ACTION.  THE EPA, SETTLING FEDERAL AGENCIES (SFAS)    AND THE POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES (PRPS) HAVE A-       GREED TO SETTLE CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE SFAS PRPS IN-        VOLVEMENT WITH THE SITE WITHOUT LITIGATION AND WITHOUT       THE ADMISSION OR ADJUDICATION OF 

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