# MARTHA ROSE CHEMICALS--GE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1986 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42787`
- **Case Number:** 07-1986-0199
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY
- CENTRAL LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
- EDISON COMPANY, COMMONWEALTH
- HOLDEN, MISSOURI, CITY OF
- ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY
- INTERSTATE POWER COMPANY
- IOWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
- KANSAS POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
- LEAR SIEGLER, INC.
- MISSOURI PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
- NEW ENGLAND ELECTRIC SYSTEM, INC.
- NEW ORLEANS PUB SVC, INC/LOUISIANA P&L
- OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
- SAVANNAH ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY
- SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
- WEST TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY
## Summary

MARTHA C. ROSE CHEMICALS, INC. CONSISTS OF A FACILITY        LOCATED AT 500 W. MCKISSOCK IN HOLDEN, MO, WHERE PCBS HAVE   BEEN RELEASED AS A RESULT OF ACTIVITIES OF ROSE, INC.        BEGINNING IN EARLY 1983 TRHOUGH 1986, ROSE, INC. WAS ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF BROKERAGE OF PCBS AND PCB ITEMS, PROCESS- OF PCB CAPACITORS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR DISPOSAL, AND DECON-  TAMINATION OF MINERAL OIL DIELECTRIC FLUIDS CONTAINING PCBS. BETWEEN 1983 AND 1986, THE GERERATOR RESPONDENTS AND OTHER   ENTITIES CAUSED MATERIALS CONTAINING PCBS TO BE SHIPPED TO   THE HOLDEN FACILITY FOR PROPER DISPOSAL UNDER TSCA.  ROSE,   INC. DID NOT PROPERLY MANAGE, HANDLE, AND ARRANGE FOR THE    LAWFUL DISPOSAL OF PCBS & PCB ITEMS SHIPPED TO ITS FACILITY. THE GENERATOR RESPONDENTS ASSERT THAT ROSE, INC. WAS ALSO IN VIOLATION OF ITS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION TO EACH GENERATOR    RESPONDENT FOR FAILING TO PROPERLY MANAGE, HANDLE & ARRANGE  FOR THE LAWFUL DISPOSAL OF PCBS AND PCB ITEMS.               ROSE, INC. FAILED TO MANAGE, HANDLE AND DISPOSE OF PCBS AND  PCB ITEMS IN ACCORDANE WITH THE APPLICABLE FEDERAL PCB REGU- LATIONS CONTAINED AT 40 C.F.R. PART 761.                     INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY EPA AND/OR MDNR HAVE DETECTED    PCBS IN FAUNA SAMPLES DOWNSTREAM FROM THE HOLDEN FACILITY,   IN SLUDGE DRYING BEDS AT THE HOLDEN CITY SEWAGE TREATMENT    PLANT DOWNSTREAM APPROXIMATELY 1000 FEET FROM THE HOLDEN     FACILITY, AND IN BRANCH AND CREEK SEDIMENTS DOWNSTREAM FROM  THE HOLDEN FACILITY.  EPA BELIEVES T

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