# HASTINGS RADIOCHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38711`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0031
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JAMES AND VERNICE FARCHIONE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTIONS 104(E) AND 106(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRON-     MENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT             ( CERCLA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTIONS 9604(E) AND 9606(A).       2. HASTINGS RADIOCHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE                        STATE HIGHWAY 35                                             FRIENDSWOOD, BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS 77546                    RESPONDENTS: JAMES VERNICE FARCHIONE                      3. THE HASTINGS RADIOCHEMICAL SITE IS AN OLD GASOLINE FILL-     ING STATION, WHICH IS LOCATED IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO        TEXAS HIGHWAY 35 IN PEARLAND, TEXAS. THE HASTINGS RADIO-     CHEMICAL CO. OPERATED ON THIS SITE FROM AROUND 1965 TO       1970. HASTINGS IN FACT CONSTRUCTED A LABORATORY FACILITY     IN THE GARGAGE BAY AREA, WHERE IT FORMULATED RADIO-ISO-      TOPES FOR INDUSTRIAL USE. THE PRINCIPAL ISOTOPE USED WAS     CESIUM-137. HOWEVER, SOME AMERICIUM-241 AND OTHER ISO-       TOPES OF SHORT HALF-LIVES WERE USED. RADIOLOGICAL HYGIENE    DURING THESE OPERATIONS WAS APPARENTLY POOR, THUS ALLOW-     ING SOILS AROUND THE BUILDING, INCLUDING THE ADJACENT UN-    PAVED PARKING LOT, AN ADJACENT PROPERTY AND LOCAL STORM      WATER DRAINAGE DITCHED TO BECOME CONTAMINATED. IN FACT,      LARGE PORTIONS OF THE FILLING STATION BUILDING ITSELF,       REMAIN SIGNIFICANTLY CONTAMINATED.                           THE FILLING STATION PROPERTY NOW CONTAINS CONTAMINATED       STORAGE CONTAINERS FROM PREVIOUS CLEANUP ACTIONS WITHIN      THE BUILDING, UNDERGROUND STORAGE

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