# SMITH-JONES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `44003`
- **Case Number:** 07-1991-0056
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $500K
- **Compliance action $:** $536K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SMITH-JONES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DIRECT REFERRAL FOR A SUPERFUND COST RECOVERY ACTION FOR THE MIDWEST MANUFACTURING/NORTH FARM SUPERFUND SITE IN KELLOGG,  IOWA.                                                        THIS IS A REFERRAL FOR A JUDICIAL ACTION PURSUANT TO CERCLA  SECTION 107 FOR THE RECOVERY OF PAST RESPONSE COSTS AND A    DECLARATION OF LIABILITY FOR FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED  BY THE EPA.  IN ADDITION, EPA IS SEEKING PENALTIES UNDER     SECTION 104 OF CERCLA FOR THE PROPOSED DEFENDANT'S FAILURE   TO RESPOND TO EPA'S REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR OVER 3       YEARS.                                                       THE FACILITY INVOLVED IS THE MIDWEST MANUFACTURING/NORTH     FARM FACILITY, WHICH IS COMPOSE OF 2 OPERABLE UNTIS.  THE    PRIMARY PROPOSED DEFENDANT, SMITH-JONES, INC., HAS OWNED AND OPERATED A MANUFACTURING PLANT LOCATED AT 101 HIGH STREET,   KELLOGG, IOWA, SINCE APPROXIMATELY APRIL, 1973 (THE  MIDWEST OPERABLE UNIT ).  FROM 1977 TO 1978, SMITH-JONES WAS THE     GENERATOR OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES THAT THE COMPANY DISPOSED  OF IN AN UNLINED DISPOSAL CELL LOCATED IN A RURAL AREA 2     MILES NORTH AND ONE-HALF MILE EAST OF KELLOGG, IOWA (THE      NORTH FARM OPERABLE UNIT ).  FROM 1978 TO 1981, THE COMPANY DISPOSED OF THESE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN AN UNLINED TRENCH  LOCATED BETWEEN THE MANUFACTURING PLANT BUILDING AND THE     NORTH SKUNK RIVER.                                           EPA UNDERTOOK INVESTIGATION OF THE SITE IN MAY, 1982.  THE   SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NPL IN 1986. 

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