# BOECK DRUMS SUPERFUND SITE - U.S. AIR FORCE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39491`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0827
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $150K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MR. EUGENE O. BOECK (settlement)
- U.S. AIR FORCE (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 122(H)(1) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-     SPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980, AS AMEND-    ED ( CERCLA ), 42 9622(H)(1).                             2. BOECK DRUMS SUPERFUND SITE                                   APPROX. 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEGUIN, TX.                    KINGSBURY, GUADALUPE COUNTY, TEXAS 78638                  3. THE SITE CONSISTED OF APPROXIMATELY 100 55-GALLON DRUMS.     VARIOUS DRUMS HAD LABELS FOR CONTENTS SUCH AS TOLUENE,       TRICHLOROETHYLENE, CLEANING COMPOUNDS, AIRCRAFT SERVICE      SOLVENTS, AND 1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE. APPROXIMATELY HALF      OF THE DRUMS WERE EMPTY. PRLIMINARY HAZARD CATEGORIZATION    INDICATED THE OTHER HALF CONTAINED VARIOUS AMOUNTS OF        CHLORINATED ORGANIC SOLVENTS, STRONGLY BASIC SOLUTIONS,      AND STRONGLY ACIDIC SOLUTIONS. RELEASE OF MATERIALS INTO     THE ENVIRONMENT WAS PLAINLY VISIBLE. SOME DRUMS HAD NO       TOPS AND/OR WERE TURNED ON THEIR SIDES. THE SOIL AROUND      MANY OF THE DRUMS WAS STAINED AND ALL DRUMS WERE IN POOR     CONDITION. RESULTS FROM PREVIOUS SAMPLES TAKEN BY THE        STATE SHOWED THE CONTENTS OF MOST DRUMS TO BE LISTED         HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.                                        IN RESPONSE TO THE RELEASE OR THREATENED RELEASE OF HAZ-     ARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE SITE, EPA CONDUCTED A TIME        CRITICAL REMOVAL ACTION AT THE SITE.                         AS OF OCT. 31, 1998, EPA HAS INCURRED RESPONSE COSTS AT      OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE IN

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