# CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `48388`
- **Case Number:** 08-1989-0097
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $585K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE IS AN ACTION AGAINST THE CHAMPION INTER-      NATIONAL CORPORATION UNDER SECTIONS 106 AND 107 OF THE       CERCLA, REGARDING THE LIBBY GROUNDWATER NATIONAL PRIORITY    LIST (NPL) SITE IN LIBBY, MT (LIBBY SITE), SEEKING PER-      FORMANCE OF THE ROD ACTIVITIES AND RECOVERY OF PAST AND      FURTHER COSTS AT THE SITE.                                        CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION IS THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE FACILITY ON WHICH SUBSTANCES WERE DISPOSED, AND IS    THE PREDECESSOR IN INTEREST OF THE PAST OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF THE SITE.                                                      A DETERMINATION OF NECESSARY REMEDIAL ACTION WAS MADE   IN A ROD ISSUED BY JAMES SCHERER ON DECEMBER 30, 1988.  THE  ROD CALLED FOR PERFORMANCE OF BIODEGRATION TREATMENT ON CON- TAMINATED SOILS AND BIOGRADATION OF UPPER AQUIFER GROUND     WATER AT THE LIBBY SITE, SUCH THAT APPROPRIATE LEVELS OF     CONTAMINATION ARE ACHIEVED.  THE ROD ALSO CALLES FOR INTERIM ACTION IN THE LOWER AQUIFER AT THE SITE, THROUGH PERFORMANCE OF FURTHER PILOT STUDIES INVOLVING BIODEGRATIONAND           EXTRACTION WELL TECHNOLOGY.                                       THE ROD HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN    THE UNITED STATES AND CHAMPION OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS. A CONSENT DECREE RESOVLING THESE CLAIMS WAS SENT UNDER A     SEPARATE COVER TO DOJ.  SIGNING OF THE DECREE BY DOJ WAS     RECOMMENDED AND FILING OF THE COMPLAINT AND LODGING OF THE   CONSENT DECREE SHOULD BE DONE SIMULTANEOU

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