# ELLIOTT'S AUTO PARTS SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36292`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0423
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERCABLE CORPORATION
- ARKANSAS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES, INC. (complaint)
- ARKANSAS POWER & LIGHT CO.
- BENTON, ARKANSAS WATER & LIGHT COMPANY
- BLUME SCRAP METAL COMPANY
- CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
- CITY OF CLARKSVILLE, ARKANSAS
- CITY OF NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
- COOK'S SCRAP METAL COMPANY
- EASTERN ILLINI ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC
- HOPE, ARKANSAS WATER & LIGHT COMMISSION
- JAMES BIAS D/B/A ABC SALVAGE
- JIMELCO, INC.
- LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT CO.
- MEMPHIS LIGHT, GAS & WATER DIVISION
- PETER KIEWIT SONS', INC.
- SOL ALMAN COMPANY, INC.
- SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY
## Summary

1. SECTION 106(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-        SPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), AS A-     MENDED, 42 U.S.C. SEC. 9606(A), SECTION 104(A) OF CERCLA,    42 U.S.C. SEC. 9604(A), AND SECTION 122 OF CERCLA, 42        U.S.C. SEC. 9622.                                         2. ELLIOTT'S AUTO PARTS SITE                                    723 WEST SOUTH (OFF ALCOA ROAD WEST OF I-30)                 BENTON, SALINE COUNTY, ARKANSAS                           3. JAMES ELLISON ( ELLISON ) OWNED THE SITE CONTINUOUSLY        FROM 1970 TO 1982. ELLISON CONDUCTED SALVAGE OPERATIONS      ON THE SITE FROM APPROXIMATELY 1972 TO APPROXIMATELY 1982    AS SALINE COUNTY SALVAGE COMPANY ( SALINE ). AS PART OF      ELLISON'S OPERATIONS AT THE SITE, JUNK ELECTRICAL EQUIP-     MENT WAS SALVAGED, AND THESE OPERATIONS CAUSED OIL CON-      TAMINATED WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBS) FROM THAT    EQUIPMENT TO BE LEAKED OR SPILLED ON THE LAND SURFACE AND    DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE. AS A SEPARATE PART OF ELLISON'S     OPERATION AT THE SITE, BATTERIES AND OTHER MATERIALS WERE    SALVAGED BY SALINE AND THESE OPERATIONS CAUSED LEAD FROM     THOSE MATERIALS TO BE SPILLED ON THE LAND SURFACE AND        DISPOSED OF AT THE SITE.                                     IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FROM THE ARKANSAS DEPT. OF          HEALTH, AN INSPECTION OF THE SITE WAS PERFORMED ON JUL.      19, 1985 BY THE EPA. ANALYSES OF THE SOIL SAMPLES COL-       LECTED ON ONE PART OF THE SITE DU

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