# FARNAN FARM SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36393`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0089
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHARLES E. HALL (complaint)
- WADE D. FARNAN (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 106(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-        SPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), 42        U.S.C. SECTION 9606(A).                                   2. FARNAN FARM SITE                                             PERSHING, ODAGE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO                           DEFENDANTS:                                                  CHARLES E. HALL                                              WADE D. FARNAN                                            3. THE FARNAN FARM SITE IS LOCATED IN OR NEAR SECTION 6,        RANGE 9 EAST, TOWNSHIP 24 NORTH, PERSHING, OSAGE COUNTY,     OKLAHOMA. THE SITE WAS REPORTED TO EPA IN FEB. 1981, BY      AN ANONYMOUS CITIZEN WHO WITNESSED THE BURIAL OF DRUMS ON    THE SITE TWO OR THREE YEARS PRIOR TO REPORTING THE INCID-    ENT. AN EPA REPRESENTATIVE INVESTIGATED AND ESTIMATED        THAT APPROXIMATELY 40 TO 50 BARRELS WERE BURIED ON THE       SITE.                                                        IN MAY 1982, EPA FIELD INVESTIGATION TEAM (FIT) PERFORMED    A SITE SAMPLING INSPECTION, COLLECTING SAMPLES FROM THREE    DRUMS. ACCORDING TO THE ANALYTICAL RESULTS, THE DRUMS        CONTAINED THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES TOLUENE, CARBON AL-       KANES, METHYLCYCLOPENTHANE, PYRENE, AND HEXAMETHYLCYCLO-     TRISILOXANE. THESE ALL CONSTITUTE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AS    DEFINED AT SECTION 101(14) OF CERCLA. THESE HAZARDOUS        SUBSTANCES ARE CONSTITUENTS OF PRINTING INK AND ASSOCIAT-    ED PRINTING SOLVENTS, WHICH WERE 

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