# RELIANCE BATTERY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `44864`
- **Case Number:** 07-1994-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $20K
- **Compliance action $:** $10K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RELIANCE BATTERY MANUFACTURING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- ROSEMARY GRANT (complaint) (settlement)
- WILLIAM SCOTT GRANT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RELIANCE BATTERY MFG. CO. (RBMC) OPERATES A LEAD-ACID        BATTERY MANUFACTURING PLANT ON PROPERTY OWNED BY MR. & MRS.  W. SCOTT GRANT.  MR. GRANT IS THE PRESIDENT OF RBMC, AND MR. & MRS. GRANT ARE ITS PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS.  THE RBMC       FACILITY IS LOCATED IN A MIXED RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL    AREA IN COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.  SEVERAL HOUSES ARE LOCATED IN   THE SAME CITY BLOCK AS THE FACILITY.  A PUBLIC GRADE SCHOOL  IS LOCATED WITHIN 4 BLOCKS OF THE SITE, AND SCHOOL CHILDREN  ROUTINELY CUT THROUGH AN ALLEY ON THE SITE GOING TO AND FROM SCHOOL.  THE U.S. EPA, REGION VII CONDUCTED A SITE           INVESTIGATION IN 1989, WHICH FOUND ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS   OF LEAD BOTH IN SOILS ON THE RBMC FACILITY, AND IN           NEIGHBORING RESIDENTIAL YARDS.  WHEN ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE   AN ADMINISTRATIVE CONSENT ORDER WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL, EPA     ISSUED A UNILATERAL ORDER TO RBMC AND THE GRANTS, REQUIRING  THEM TO CONDUCT A CERCLA REMOVAL ACTION TO ADDRESS LEAD      CONTAMINATION ON THE RBMC AND NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.  THEY  SUBMITTED A REMOVAL ACTION WORK PLAN WHICH, EVEN AFTER AN    OPPORTUNITY TO REVISE THE WORK PLAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH EPA'S COMMENTS, DID NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ORDER.  EPA   THEN CONDUCTED THE REMOVAL ACTION.  WHILE WE WERE            COMMUNICATING WITH THE PRPS ON THEIR WORK PLAN, WE RECEIVED  REPORTS FROM NEIGHBORING RESIDENTS THAT, AT NIGHT, RBMC WAS  DIGGING UP AND HAULING OFF SOILS FROM PORTIONS OF ITS        PROPERTY KNOWN TO BE CONTAMINATED.  

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