# CHEMICAL COMMODITIES, INC., OLATHE, KS
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `45544`
- **Case Number:** 07-1996-0256
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC, AS SUCCESSOR TO CORDANT T (complaint) (settlement)
- ASHLAND INC (complaint) (settlement)
- BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CERTAINTEED CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- HALLMARK CARDS, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGIES, (complaint)
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- MALLINCKRODT INC (complaint) (settlement)
- THE BOEING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1951 UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 1989,        CHEMICAL COMMODITIES, INC. ENGAGED IN THE FORMULATION OF     PESTICIDES, RECLAMATION OF SPENT SOLVENTS, AND THE PURCHASE  FOR RESALE, STORAGE AND REPACKAGING OF A WIDE VARIETY OF     PRODUCTS, INCLUDING PESTICIDES, FOOD PRODUCTS, PRESCRIPTION  AND NON-PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, COSMETICS, LABORATORY AND        INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, AT A SITE     LOCATED AT 300-320 S. BLAKE ST., OLATHE, KANSAS.  THE        SPILLAGE AND/OR LEAKAGE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES HANDLED AND  STORED AT THE SITE HAS RESULTED IN SOIL AND GROUNDWATER      CONTAMINATION.  THE MAJOR SOIL CONTAMINANTS AT THE SITE ARE  VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.  THE MOST PREVALENT GROUNDWATER  CONTAMINANT IS TRICHLOROETHENE.  OTHER MAJOR CONTAMINANTS    WHICH HAVE BEEN DETECTED IN THE GROUNDWATER INCLUDE          1,1-DICHLOROETHANE, METHYLENE CHLORIDE,                      1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE, CARBON TECTRACHLORIDE,                1,2-DICHLOROETHANE, TETRACHLOROETHENE, AND                   1,1,2,2-TETRACHLOROETHANE. AIR TOXICS STUDIES ALSO INDICATE  THAT THE SITE IS A SOURCE OF AIR POLLUTION.  A REMOVAL       ACTION WAS COMMENCED AT THE SITE IN JULY, 1989. THE SITE IS  OWNED BY CCI.  JERALD GERSHON IS THE SOLE OFFICER, DIRECTOR, AND STOCKHOLDER OF CCI.  IN DECEMBER, 1988, CERCLA FUNDS     WERE EXPENDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES (1,100 POUNDS OF AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE)  FROM A TRUCK WHICH CAUGHT FIRE NEAR 

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