# BLISS, RUSSELL MARTIN
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `45573`
- **Case Number:** 07-1996-0289
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $300K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ANTIMONY CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- RUSSELL BLISS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS AN ABILITY TO PAY SETTLEMENT.  ANTIMONY IS THE       PRESENT OWNER OF THE PROPERTY ON WHICH THE SITE IS LOCATED.  THE SITE WAS FORMERLY OWNED BY APATITE CORPORATION, AND      ANTIMONY BOUGHT THE PROPERTY WHEN APATITE WAS IN             DISSOLUTION.  BOTH APATITE AND ANTIMONY WERE CORPORATIONS    OWNED BY BRIGHT INDUSTRIES AND BRIGHT SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.   THE RTC BECAME THE RECEIVER FOR BBSA ON FEBRUARY 2, 1990,    THEN BECAME THE SOLE SHAREHOLDER OF BOTH ANTIMONY AND        APATITE.  FDIC NOW HOLDS THE LIMITED ASSETS AND IS THE SOLE  SHAREHOLDER OF ANTIMONY.                                     EPA IMPOSED A LIEN ON THIS PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION      107(1); BY THE TERMS OF THE CONSENT DECREE, WHEN ANTIMONY    PAYS THE REQUIRED AMOUNT INTO THE SUPERFUND, THE LIEN WILL   BE REMOVED.  IN ADDITION, THE TERMS OF THE DECREE PROVIDE    THAT ANY PURCHASER WHO ENTERS INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE     U.S. IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE EPA MAY OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF THIS SETTLEMENT.  CONSISTENT WITH ADMINISTRATOR BROWNER'S BROWNFIELDS AGENDA, THIS PROVISION IS EXPECTED TO ENCOURAGE  REDEVELOPMENT AND REUSE OF THIS PROPERTY, WHICH HAS REMAINED VACANT SINCE THE CONTAMINATION WAS DISCOVERED.

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