# DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT SUPERFUND SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37085`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0254
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AVONDALE INDUSTRIES, INC. (settlement)
- BASF CORPORATION (settlement)
- BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION (settlement)
- BP EXPLORATION (settlement)
- BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES (settlement)
- CHEMICAL SERVICES, INC. (settlement)
- CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION (settlement)
- COS-MAR CO./FINA OIL AND CHEMICAL CO. (settlement)
- ETHYL CORPORATION (settlement)
- EXXON CORPORATION (settlement)
- GEOSOURCE INCORPORATED (settlement)
- KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION (settlement)
- MOBIL OIL CORPORATION (settlement)
- PORT ALLEN MARINE SERVICE, INC. (settlement)
- SHELL OIL CO./SHELL WEST. E&P/SHELL OFFS (settlement)
- SOUTHERN SCRAP MATERIAL COMPANY, LTD. (settlement)
- TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPE LINE CORP. (settlement)
- TRINITY INDUSTRIES (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 106(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-        SPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), 42       U.S.C. SECTION 9606(A).                                   2. DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT SUPERFUND SITE                       INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10 AND LOUISIANA HIGHWAY 74               ASCENSION PARISH, LOUISIANA                               3. THE SITE KNOWN AS THE ABANDONED DUTCHTOWN OIL TREATMENT      FACILITY IS APPROXIMATELY FIVE ACRES, AND THERE ARE AP-      PROXIMATELY 60 RESIDENCES AND AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LO-       CATED WITHIN ONE-HALF MILE RADIUS OF THE SITE. THE CLOS-     EST RESIDENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 165 FEET FROM A CLOSED        WASTE PIT.                                                   THE SITE WAS USED TO RECYCLE WASTE OIL AND OTHER WASTE       MATERIALS, INCLUDING SOLVENTS AND PETROCHEMICAL WASTE,       FROM 1965 UNTIL APRROXIMATELY 1982. THE SITE INCLUDES        WASTE PITS, A HOLDING POND, ABOVE-GROUND VERTICAL AND        HORIZONTAL TANKS, AND A RAILROAD TANK CAR. THE SITE ALSO     CONTAINED A SMALL BUILDING AND ABOVE-GROUND PIPING INSUL-    ATED WITH ASBESTOS.                                          THE RESPONDENTS LISTED IN THE UAO ALL, BY CONTRACT, A-       GREEMENT, OR OTHERWISE, ARRANGED FOR THE DISPOSAL OR         TREATMENT OR FOR THE TRANSPORT FOR DISPOSAL OR TREATMENT     OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, OWNED OR POSSESSED BY RESPOND-      ENTS, DURING THE TIME-FRAME WHEN HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES        WERE DISPOSED OR TREATED AT THE S

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