# AMERICAN CREOSOTE WORKS SUPERFUND SITE - STALLWORTH TIMBER
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41138`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0236
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- STALLWORTH TIMBER COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 107(A) OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-        SPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), 42       U.S.C. SECTION 9607(A).                                   2. AMERICAN CREOSOTE WORKS SUPERFUND SITE                       1006 FRONT STREET                                            WINNFIELD, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA 71483                      RESPONDENT: STALLWORTH TIMER CO., INC.                    3. THE SITE IS THE LOCATION OF A FORMER WOOD TREATING FA-       CILITY, WHICH OPERATED FROM THE EARLY 1900'S UNTIL 1985.     CREOSOTE AND PENTACHLOROPHENOL (PCP) TREATING FLUIDS WERE    USED AT THE SITE IN PRESSURE TREATMENT OF WOOD. EPA HAS      CONDUCTED SEVERAL CERCLA REMOVAL ACTIONS AND A REMEDIAL      ACTION AT THE SITE. EPA KNOWS OF ONLY ONE EXTANT PRP WHO     APPEARS TO BE CAPABLE OF PAYING ANY PORTION OF EPA'S PAST    COSTS: STALLWORTH TIMBER CO., INC., WHICH OWNED THE SITE     FROM 1979 TO 1990.                                        4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 107(A) OF CERCLA, EPA      REFERRED A CIVIL LITIGATION REPORT TO DOJ TO REVIEW IN       ANTICIPATION OF A FAILURE OF THE PRP TO REPAY THE CLEANUP    COSTS INCURRED BY EPA BEFORE THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS      RUNS OUT. EPA SEEKS TO RECOVER THE COSTS OF REMOVAL AND      REMEDIAL ACTIONS. THOSE COSTS, EXCLUSIVE OF INTEREST,        TOTAL APPROXIMATELY $34,000,000.

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