# KRESTCO, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37691`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0866
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $180K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KRESTCO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. EMERGENCY LETTER REFERRAL OF BANKRUPTCY MATTER: IN RE:       KRESTCO, INC., U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE EASTERN DIS-    TRICT OF TEXAS, SHERMAN DIVISION, CASE NO. 90-40287-BKC-     RAM (CHAPTER 7).                                          2. KRESTCO, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION                        INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 121 AND RAILROAD ROAD                LEWISVILLE, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS 75028                    3. THE SITE WAS FORMERLY AN ALUMIUM AND VINYL EXTRUSION AND     COATING FACILITY. THE LAND USE SURRONDING THE SITE IS IN-    DUSTRIAL.                                                    THE SITE WAS REFERRED TO THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE BRANCH OF    REGION 6 EPA BY TRNCC. UPON INVESTIGATION, A SIGNIFICANT     AMOUNT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IN 55-GALLON DRUMS, FLOOR      SUMPS/PITS AND SMALL CONTAINERS. THE RESULTS OF THE IN-      VESTIGATIONESTABLISHED THE NEED FOR AN IMMEDIATE REMOVAL     ACTION.                                                      ON MARCH 28,1995, EPA INITIATED A CLASSIC EMERGENCY RE-      MOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE. ALL REMOVAL, CLEANUP AND DIS-      POSAL ACTIONS WERE COMPLETED BY MAY 4, 1995. IN PERFORM-     ING THE RESPONSE ACTION AT THE SITE, EPA INCURRED COSTS      OF APPROXIMATELY $300,000.                                   KRESTCO, INC. FILED FOR REORGANIZATION UNDER CH. 11 OF       THE BANKRUPTCY CODE ON FEB. 27, 1990. THE CASE WAS CON-      VERTED TO A LIQUIDATION UNDER CH. 7 OF THE BANKRUPTCY        CODE ON MAR. 3, 1991. LINDA PAYNE

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