# ODESSA DRUM SUPERFUND SITE, THE - ALPHA INTERMEDIATES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39164`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0498
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $155K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALPHA INTERMEDIATES, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 112(H)(1) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-     SPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980, AS A-       MENDED ( CERCLA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9622(H)(1).          2. THE ODESSA DRUM SUPERFUND SITE                               EAST OF THE CORNER OF ALICE AND JUDY STREETS                 ODESSA, ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS 79762                            RESPONDENT: ALPHA INTERMEDIATES, INC.                     3. THE SITE, WHICH IS THE LOCATION OF AN INACTIVE DRUM RE-      CYCLING OPERATION, IS ABANDONED AND WAS DISCOVERED BY EPA    TO CONTAINED THOUSANDS OF DRUMS, TANKS AND OTHER STORAGE     CONTAINERS CONTAINING LIQUID, SOLID, AND SLUDGE WASTE        MATERIALS, ALL OF WHICH CONTAINED HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.      BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUED RELEASE OR THREATENED RELEASE OF    HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT, AND BECAUSE OF    THE IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO THE PUBLIC      HEALTH OR WELFARE OF THE ENVIRONMENT, DUE THE CONDITIONS     AT THE SITE, EPA CONDUCTED TWO REMOVAL ACTIONS.              AS OF NOV. 4, 1998, TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR THE RESPONSE      ACTION AT THE SITE WERE ESTIMATED AT $7,063,989. OF THIS     AMOUNT, A TOTAL OF $4,413,732.67 WAS PAID FROM A REIM-       BURSABLE ACCOUNT FUNDED PURSUANT TO EPA SETTLEMENTS WITH     DE MINIMIS AND MAJOR PARTIES. EPA HAS RECOVERED AN ADDI-     TIONAL $2,114,240.69 DIRECTLY FROM SETTLING PARTIES. TAK-    ING THESE FIGURES INTO ACCOUNT LEAVES APPROXIMATELY          $536,015.64 THAT EPA INCURRED AS 

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