# ROCKWOOL INDUSTRIES SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38002`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0308
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CTMC, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CURTIS DONALDSON (complaint) (settlement)
- RICHARD FRITH (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 106(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-        SPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT, AS AMENDED , 42      U.S.C. SECTION 9606(A) ( CERCLA ).                        2. ROCKWOOL INDUSTRIES SITE                                     TAYLORS VALLEY ROAD                                          BELTON, BELL COUNTY, TEXAS 76513                          3. THE ROCKWOOL SITE CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED      ACRES OF LAND IN BELTON, TEXAS. CUREENTLY INACTIVE, THE      ROCKWOOL FACLLITY OPERATED AS A MINERAL WOOL INSULATION      MANUFACTURING PLANT FROM MID-1950 UNTIL FEB. 1987. REGION    6 HAS CONDUCTED A REMEDIAL PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT AND A      SITE INVESTIGATION. THE SITE WAS PROPOSED FOR LISTING ON     THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL) ON MAR. 6, 1998. KNOWN    SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION INCLUDE TWO PILES OF CONTAMIN-      ATED SLAG AND SOILS; SUBSTANCES OF CONCERN ARE MAINLY        METALS SUCH AS ARSENIC, ANTIMONY, AND LEAD. CTMC, A TEXAS    CORPORATION FORMED ON SEPT. 2, 1997, PURCHASED APPROXI-      MATELY 83 ACRES OF THE 100-ACRE ROCKWOOL SITE AT A TAX       FORFEITURE AUCTION LATER IN SPET. 1997. PRIOR TO THE PUR-    CHASE, THE REGION HAD NOTIFIED MR. FRITH THAT THE SITE       WAS TO BE PROPOSED TO THE NPL, AND THAT HE WOULD BE CON-     SIDERED A POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY IF HE PURCHASED      THE SITE, AND THAT HE SHOULD NOT CONDUCT ANY SITE ACTIVI-    TIES WITHOUT OBTAINING APPROVAL FROM THE REGION. THERE IS    SOME EVIDENCE, DISCOVERED AFTER I

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