# RAB VALLEY WOOD PRESERVING SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36342`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0037
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JOSLYN MANFACTURING COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 104(B), 106(A), AND 122 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EN-     VIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT, 42     U.S.C. SECTIONS 9604, 9606 AND 9622 ( CERCLA ).           2. RAB VALLEY WOOD PRESERVING SITE                              PANAMA, LE FLORE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA                         3. THE SITE IS LOCATED IN LE FLORE COUNTY , OKLAHOMA, SOUTH-    EAST OF THE TOWN OF PANAMA AND BOUNDED BY KANSAS CITY        SOUTHERN RAILROAD TO THE WEST, AND TECUMSEH STREET TO THE    NORTH.                                                       THE SITE INCLUDES 36 ACRES OF PROCESS AREA AND ADDITIONAL    ACREAGE TO THE SOUTH. THE TOTAL SIZE OF THE SITE IS ESTI-    MATED TO BE 200 ACRES. SEVERAL WOOD PRESERVING COMPANIES     OPERATED THE FACILITIES AT THE SITE INTERMITTENTLY FROM      THE EARLY 1900'S TO 1976. THE FACILITIES AT THE SITE WERE    UTILIZIED FOR THE PRESSURIZED TREATMENT OF WOOD, USING       COAL TAR CREOSOTE AND PENTACHLOROPHENOL. THE TREATMENT       PROCESS USED A PRESSURE TANK TO REMOVE INTERSTITIAL          FLUIDS FROM THE RAW WOOD AND THEN REPLACED THE FLUIDS        WITH CREOSOTE AND PENTACHLOROPHENOL BASED OILS. THE          FLUIDS NOT ABSORBED DURING THE PRESSURE TREATMENT WAS        PUT INTO A SYSTEM OF LAGOONS, WHICH POSSIBLY ALLOWED         SOME OF THE OILS TO BE RECLAIMED AND REUSED. SINCE CREO-     SOTE IS ACTUALLY A COMBINATION OF SEVERAL ORGANIC COM-       POUNDS CONTAINING  CHAINS  OF CARBON ATOMS IN AEQUENCE,      THE TERM POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYD

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