# FREEMAN INDUSTRIES
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Default Order, No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4927`
- **Case Number:** 02-1994-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order, No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FREEMAN INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- JOEL FREEMAN (complaint) (settlement)
- PAUL FREEDMAN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

*******FACILITY******                                        FREEMAN INDUSTRIES                                           100 MARBLEDALE ROAD                                          TUCKAHOE, NY 10707                                           *********************                                        OWNERSHIP: PRIVATE                                           *********************                                        MANUFACTURE VITAMINS AND FOOD ADDITIVES.                     DURING THE COURSE OF A SITE ASSESSMENT ON NOVEMBER 16, 1993, EPA'S ON-SCENE COORDINATOR DISCOVERED EXPLOSIVES AND OTHER   HIGHLY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS HAPHAZARDLY STORED IN THOUSANDS   OF CONTAINERS IN VARIOUS STRUCTURES AT A VITAMIN AND FOOD    PROCESSING FACILITY IN TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK.  EPA REQUESTED    THAT RESPONDENTS, THE SITE OWNERS AND OPERATOR, GRANT        ACCESS SO THAT EPA MIGHT PERFORM REMOVAL ACTIVITIES AT THE   SITE.  ACCESS WAS GRANTED BY RESPONDENTS ON NOVEMBER 18,     1993 AND REVOKED ON NOVEMBER 21, 1993.  ON NOVEMBER 23, 1993 EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER UNDER CERCLA/104(E)       DIRECTING RESPONDENTS TO COMPLY WITH EPA'S REQUEST FOR       ACCESS.  ON DECEMBER 1, 1993, RESPONDENTS VIOLATED THE ORDER BY BARRING EPA FROM THE SITE.  PURSUANT TO AN ORAL REFERRAL  MADE BY EPA ON DECEMBER 1, 1993, EPA SOUGHT A WARRANT OF ENT RY FROM A FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE WHICH WAS GRANTED ON  DECEMBER 3, 1993, AND ALSO SOUGHT JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF    THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER.  THE WARRA

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