# RUSSELL MARTIN BLISS ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47262`
- **Case Number:** 07-2001-0109
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.75M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PRIMERICA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- REXAM BEVERAGE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

3/12/01:  THIS IS A COST RECOVERY CASE PURSUANT TO           SECTION 107 OF CERCLA WHICH RESOLVES THE UNITED              STATES CLAIM FOR COSTS FOR ALL RESPONSE ACTIONS WHICH HAVE   BEEN TAKEN AT THE SITE.  REGION 7 BECAME AWARE OF THIS SITE  IN 1980.  THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS ARE SUCCESSORS IN          INTEREST TO A PARTY WHOSE WASTES WERE FOUND AT THE SITE.     THE PREDECESSOR WAS FIRST NOTIFIED OF ITS POTENTIAL          LIABILITY IN 1981.  THE REMEDIAL ACTION BEGAN IN JANUARY     1996 AND WAS COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 1996.  PRIOR TO THE INITI ATION OF THE REMEDIAL ACTION THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS WERE    OFFERED THE OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERTAKE THE REMEDIAL ACTION,    THEY DECLINED TO DO SO.  WE HAVE NOT RESOLVED A SETTLEMENT   FOR THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS SHARE OF THE RESPONSE COSTS      INCURRED FOR OU5 AT THE SITE.

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