# CORNELIUS DEWITTE LOE, JR.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37191`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0361
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $50K
- **Compliance action $:** $20K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CORNELIUS DEWITTE LOE, JR. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 7003 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6973.                     2. CORNELIUS DEWITTE LOE, JR.                                   ROUTE 3 BOX 513A                                             CEMETARY ROAD                                                POTTSBORO, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS 75076                       FACILITY: ANCHOR RANCH                                    3. RESPONDENT OWNS A PROPERTY COMMONLY KNOWN AS  ANCHOR         RANCH , CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 137 ACRES, LOCATED       APPROXIMATELY .3 OF A MILE WEST OF STATE HIGHWAY 120, ON     THE SOUTHSIDE OF CEMETARY ROAD, IN GRAYSON COUNTY, NEAR      THE CITY OF POTTSBORO, TEXAS.                                ON OR ABOUT OCT. 23, 1996, THROUGH OCT. 25 1996, EPA CON-    DUCTED AN INSPECTION AT ANCHOR RANCH. THE INSPECTION         FOUND AND EXCAVATED A TOTAL OF 25 DRUMS FROM THE EXCAVA-     TION SITE. SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM THE LIQUID IN 5 OF THE     BURIED DRUMS EXHIBITED THE HAZARDOUS WASTE CHARACTERISI-     TIC OF IGNITABILITY AND TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC FOR BEN-     ZENE. LIQUID WASTES SAMPLED FROM 2 OF THE DRUMS ALSO EX-     HIBITED THOSE CHARACTERISTICS.                               DURING EXECUTION OF A CRIMINAL SEARCH WARRANT, OCT. 23-      25, 1996, DISTINCT STAINING FROM THE LEAKING DRUMS WAS       OBSERVED IN THE EXCAVATION SITE. A PHOTOIONIZING DETECTOR    AND FLAME IONIZING DETECTOR WERE USED TO MONITOR THE AM-     BIENT AIR CONDITIONS AT THE EXCAV

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