# MISSOURI ELECTRIC WORKS, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `46294`
- **Case Number:** 07-1999-0103
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MORRILL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

3/29/99:  ON DECEMBER 17, 1998, THE REGION ISSUED A UNILATER AL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER IN AID OF ACCESS TO MORRILL          DEVELOPMENT COMPANY AND ITS PRINCIPALS, OWNERS OF THE        PROPERTY LOCATED IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE MEW     SITE.  DURING THE REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION PCB CONTAMINATION   WAS FOUND IN THE DRAINAGE PATHWAYS FROM THE SITE WHICH       CROSSED OVER A PORTION OF THE MORRILL PROPERTY.  THE         REMEDIAL ACTION (RA) IS SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE IN FEBRUARY    1999, AND ACCESS TO THE  MORRILL PROPERTY IS REQUIRED TO     EXCAVATE CONTAMINATED SOILS.  THE SETTLING DEFENDANT GROUP   HAS ATTEMPTED TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE MORRILL PROPERTY FOR THE PAST TWO TO THREE YEARS WHILE THE CONSENT DECREE WAS BEING   LITIGATED.  MORRILL HAS DEMANDED THAT THE SETTLING           DEFENDANTS PURCHASE THEIR PROPERTY AND LOCATE THEIR BUSINESS AT A COST OF $3,050,000 (MORRIL HAD PREVIOUSLY SOUGHT        $16,500,000 IN DAMAGES FROM THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS).  LATE  THIS PAST SUMMER THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS CAME TO EPA AND     SAID THAT THEY HAD MADE THEIR BEST EFFORTS IN OBTAINING      ACCESS AND THEY REQUESTED OUR ASSISTANCE.  EPA HAS REQUESTED TERMS OF ACCESS FROM MORRILL NUMEROUS TIMES OVER THE PAST    FIVE MONTHS AND MORRILL'S DEMAND HAS NOT CHANGED.

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