# TRI-STATE MINT, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `48803`
- **Case Number:** 08-1990-0272
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $830K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL PROPERTIES, INC.
- HOFF, CONNIE (complaint) (settlement)
- HOFF, ROBERT
- TRI-STATE MINT, INC.
- TRI-STATE PROFESSIONAL RECOVERY, INC.
- VON HOFF INTERNATIONAL, INC.
## Summary

REGION VIII HAS REFERREED AN ACTION UNDER SECTION 107(A)   OF CERCLA TO RECOVER APPROXIMATELY $1,178,000.00 IN PAST     COSTS AND ANY FUTURE COSTS INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE   TRI-STATE MINT C AVENUE SITE (SITE) IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH    DAKOTA.  BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY OF 1989, THE U.S. ENVIRONMEN- TAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) TOOK ACTIONS TO INVESTIGATE TWO  RELEASES OF CYANIDE SOLUTIONS AT THE SITE.  IN APRIL 1989,   EPA CONDUCTED A REMOVAL ACTION AT THE FACILITY AT THE        REQUEST OF THE STATE.  EPA IS NOW SEEKING TO RECOVER ITS     PAST AND FUTURE COSTS FROM THE PAST OWNERS/OPERATORS OF THE  FACILITY, CONNIE HOFF, ROBERT HOFF, TRI-STATE MINT, INC.,    TRI-STATE PROFESSIONAL RECOVERY, INC., AND VON HOFF INTERNAT IONAL, INC., AS WELL AS THE REAL PROPERTY OWNER AT THE TIME  OF THE SPILL, GENERAL PROPERTIES CORPORATION.

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