# HORIZON POTASH MINE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37041`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0210
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CYPRUS AMAX-MINERALS COMPANY (complaint)
- HORIZON POTASH CORPORATION (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. HORIZON POTASH MINE                                          CARLSBAD, EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO                            CYPRUS AMAX MINERALS COMPANY                                 HORIZON POTASH CORPORATION                                3. THE HORIZON POTASH MINE IS A CLOSED POTASH MINING AND        PROCESSING FACILITY LOCATED NEAR CARLSBAD, EDDY COUNTY,      NEW MEXICO. THE FACILITY OPERATED FROM 1952 UNTIL 1985,      WHEN IT SHUT DOWN DUE TO WEAK POTASH MARKETS. IN 1986,       THE FACILITY REOPENED, AND THEN PERMANENTALY SHUT DOWN IN    1993.                                                        ON MARCH 6, 1996, PERSONNEL ASSOCIATED WITH BLM AND NMED     AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BUREAU CONDUCTED A FIELD ASSESSMENT    OF THE SITE. DURING THE INSPECTION BLM AND NMED NOTICED      SUSPECTED ACM MATERIALS IN VARYING STAGES OF DECOMPOSIT-     ION, INCLUDING TRANSITE BUILDING MATERIAL AND PIPE AND       TANK INSULATING MATERIALS.                                   ON APRIL 2, 1996, BLM ISSUED TO CYPRUS AMAX AN ORDER RE-     QUIRING IT, IN PART, TO ADDRESS THE ACM FOUND IN POOR        CONDITIONAT THE SITE AS WELL AS CONTENTS OF TANKS AND        DRUMS FOUND ON-SITE.                                         ON APRIL 3, 1996, BLM FORMALLY REQUESTED EPA'S ASSISTANCE    IN ADDRESSING THE RELEASES, OR TH

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