# NEPACCO, ET AL., SYNTEX AGRIBUSINESS
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42245`
- **Case Number:** 07-1980-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $155K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LEE, JOHN W. (complaint) (settlement)
- MICHAELS, EDWIN B. (complaint) (settlement)
- MILLS, RONALD (complaint) (settlement)
- NORTHEASTERN PHARMACEUTICAL & CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
- SYNTEX AGRIBUSINESS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NORTH EASTERN PHARMACEUTICAL & CHEM CO, INC. SYNTAX AGRI-    BUSINESS INC., ET AL., AURORA, MO, FILED 8/1/80, CIVIL       ACTION #80-5066-CV-SW, US DIST CT FOR THE WESTERN            DISTRICT OF MO, SW DIV, A C.D. WAS ENTERED IN THE US DIST    CT FOR THE WEST DIV OF MO BETWEEN ONE OF THE DEFENDENTS,     SYNTEX AGRIBUSINESS, INC., AND THE US, TO FORMULATE &        IMPLEMENT A PLAN FOR REMOVAL OF ALL HAZARDOUS WSTE IN &      ADJACENT TO DISPOSAL TRENCH NEAR AURORA, MO, WHICH POSES     AN IMMINENT & SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMNT TO HEALTH & THE        ENVIRONMENT. DEFENDANT, N.E. PHARMACEUTICAL & CHEM CO.,      INC. WAS ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE BACTERICIDE       HEXACHLOROPHENE AT SYNTEX'S VERONA PLANT. WSTES RESULTING    FROM MANUFACTURING PROCESS INCLUDING DIOXIN, 2, 4, 5         TRICHLOROPHENOL (TCP) AND 1, 2, 4,5 TETRACHLOROBENZENE       (TCB), WERE DEPOSITED BY AN IND IN A TRENCH ON THE DENNY     FARM. IN 1969 THE CO. ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMNT W/            HOFFMAN-TAFT, INC. WHEREBY NEPACCO LEASED THE PREMISES &     PURCHASED EQUIPMNT FROM A HOFFMAN-TAFT MANUFACTURING         FACILITY LOCATED NEAR VERONA, MO. SYNTEX PURCHASED           HOFFMAN-TAFT IN DEC 1969, & SUCCEEDED TO THE PROPERTIES      RIGHTS & DUTIES WHICH WERE PART OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN     NEPACCO & HOFFMAN-TAFT. OTHER NAMED DEFENDANTS ARE 2 OF      THE CORPORATE OFFICERS, EDWIN MICHAELS & JOHN LEE, AS        WELL AS THE INDIVIDUAL THAT TRANSPORTED THE WSTES, RONALD    MILLS.

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