# NATIONAL CHROMIUM CORPORATION ODESSA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36355`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0050
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NATIONAL CHROMIUM CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 104(E)(5) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-     SPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), 42       U.S.C. SECTION 9604(E)(5).                                2. NATIONAL CHROMIUM CORPORATION                                BOBETTE STEANSON                                             WILLIAM R. MASTERSON                                         NATIONAL CHROMIUM CORPORATION SUPERFUND SITE                 2626 STEVEN ROAD                                             ODESSA, ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS                               3. NATIONAL CHROMIUM CORPORATION ( NCC ), OPERATED A CHROME     PLATING FACILITY AT THE LOCATION FROM 1979 TO 1993.          CHROMIC ACID, 1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE, AND HYDROCHLORIC        ACID WERE USED IN THE CHROME PLATING PROCESS.                THE NCC SITE INCLUDES ONE LARGE BUILDING WHICH HOUSED THE    FORMER CHROME PLATING PROCESS EQUIPMENT, CHEMICALS STOR-     AGE, AND OFFICES. ELEVEN 10,000 GALLON TANKS AND SEVERAL     SMALLER VATS ARE ON THE GROUND OF THE NCC SITE OUTSIDE OF    THE BUILDING. A PARTIALLY CLEANED UP SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT     HAS BEEN EXCAVATED TO THE NORTH OF THE BUILDING.             RESPONDENTS OWN OR HAVE CONTROL OF THE PROPERTY.             LARGE AREAS ON THE NCC SITE ARE VISIBLY STAINED YELLOW.      THE YELLOW COLOR IS INDICATIVE OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM, A     VERY TOXIC FORM OR VALENCE OF CHROMIUM. YELLOW STAINED       SOIL IS PILED IN TEN OF THE 10,000 GALLON TANKS ALONG THE    WALLS OF THE FORMER IMPOUNDMENT. 

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