# CONNOR INVESTMENT COMPANY, JASPER COUNTY, MO
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `45625`
- **Case Number:** 07-1997-0044
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASARCO
- BLUE TEE CORP.
- BROWN & ROOT
- CONNOR INVESTMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- DOE RUN COMPANY
- DUPONT & COMPANY
- GOLD FIELDS MINING COMPANY
- LIMA HILL MINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SUN COMPANY
- USX CORP.
- VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC. (complaint)
## Summary

A  CASH-OUT  CONSENT DECREE RESOLVING CONNOR INVESTMENT      COMPANY'S (CONNOR'S) CERCLA LIABILITY AT THE JASPER COUNTY   SUPERFUND SITE WAS SIGNED BY CONNOR ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1996,   AND EPA REFERRED THIS MATTER TO DOJ ON OCTOBER 22, 1996.     THE JASPER COUNTY SITE IS A MEGA-SITE.  IT IS AN INACTIVE    LEAD AND ZINC MINING AREA CONTAINING MILLIONS OF TONS OF     SURFACE MINING WASTES AND COVERING HUNDREDS OF SQUARE MILES.  THE SITE IS A PORTION OF THE TRI-STATE MINING DISTRICT      LOCATED IN KANSAS, MISSOURI, AND OKLAHOMA, WHICH WAS ONCE    THE LARGEST LEAD AND ZINC MINING AREA IN THE WORLD.  THIS    DISTRICT IS NOW THREE SEPARATE NPL SITES.  THE SITE IS ON    THE NPL (8/90).                                              REGION VII DIVIDED THE SITE INTO FOUR OPERABLE UNITS AND     ELEVEN DESIGNATED AREAS.  THE OPERABLE UNITS ARE:            OU1-GROUNDWATER; OU2-RESIDENTIAL YARDS/SMELTER WASTE;        OU3-RESIDENTIAL YARDS/MINE WASTE; AND OU4-MINE WASTE         ECOLOGICAL CLEAN-UP.  THE DESIGNATED AREAS ARE RANDOM MINE   WASTE PILES THROUGHOUT THE SITE.                             NINE PRPS ARE CONDUCTING A COMPREHENSIVE RI/FS FOR THIS SITE PURSUANT TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT.  IDENTIFIED  RISKS INCLUDE HUMAN HEALTH RISKS FROM EXPOSURE TO            CONTAMINATED RESIDENTIAL SOILS AND CONTAMINATED SHALLOW      GROUNDWATER THAT IS USED AS A DRINKING WATER SOURCE, AS WELL AS ECOLOGICAL RISKS FROM CONTAMINATED SURFACE WATER.         IN JULY 1996, WE ISSUED A RECORD OF 

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