# HEXAGON LABORATORIES
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3666`
- **Case Number:** 02-1989-0373
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HEXAGON LABORATORIES OF NEW YORK INC (complaint)
## Summary

*THIS REFERRAL WAS SUBMITTED ORALLY ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1989, AND WAS CONFRIMED WITH SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1989.                                                      HEXAGON LABORATORIES OF NEW YORK, INC. WAS A PHARMACEUTI-  CALS MANUFACTURER WHICH CEASED OPERATIONS IN 1988.  CURRENT- LY HEXAGON IS A DEBTOR IN A CHAPTER 7 LIQUIDATION PROCEED-   ING.  ACCORDING TO THE INTERIM TRUSTEE'S ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE THE DEP'T OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION (DEC) FOUND THAT     HEXAGON STORED AND MAINTAINED THIRTY UNDERGROUND STORAGE     TANKS WHICH WERE USED TO STORE HAZARDOUS WASTES.  DEC ALSO   FOUND EXTENSIVE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION IN AND AROUND THE  HEXAGON FACILITY, ACCORDING TO THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.        ON SEPTMEMBER 14, 1989 EPA RECEVIED A COPY OF THE INTERIM  TRUSTEE'S ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.  THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE-  QUESTS THE DISMISSAL OF THE CHAPTER 7 PETITION, OR IN THE    ALTERNATIVE THE CONVEYANCE OF A POSSESSORY INTEREST IN HEXA- GON'S REAL PROPERTY TO EPA AND/OR DEC.  ON THAT SAME DATE,   EPA ORALLY REFERRED THE CASE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO REPRESENT EPA IN THIS MATTER AND SPECIFICALLY TO RESPOND TO  THE INTERIM TRUSTEE'S ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.  NEGOTIATIONS BE- TWEEN DOJ AND THE INTERIM TRUSTEE RESULTED IN THE EXECUTION  OF A STIPULATION.  THE STIPULATION STATES THAT THE INTERIM   TRUSTEE HAS AGREED TO WITHDRAW THAT PORTION OF THE ORDER TO  SHOW CAUSE DIRECTING CONVEYANCE OF HEXAGON'S REAL PROPERTY   TO EPA AND/OR DEC.  THE INTERIM TRUSTE

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