# ESMAT ZAKLAMA
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Default Order, No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4963`
- **Case Number:** 02-1994-0051
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order, No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ESMAT ZAKLAMA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

******FACILITY*******                                        MONTCLAIR/WEST ORANGE SUPERFUND SITE                         MONTCLAIR & WEST ORANGE, NJ                                  *********************                                        OWNERSHIP: VARIES;  INCLUDES P & M PROPERTIES OVER 400.      THIS CASE REQUESTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO COMMENCE A CIVIL  ACTION TO COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER FOR ACCESS PURSUANT TO SECTION 104(E) OF CERCLA.  EPA DETERMINED THAT RADIOACTIVE WASTE MATERIALS FROM A RADIUM PROCESSING    FACILITY HAD CONTAMINATED OVER 400 RESIDENTIAL AND PUBLIC    PROPERTIES IN MONTCLAIR AND WEST ORANGE, N.J.  IN 1989 AND   1990, EPA ISSUED RECORDS OF DECISION CALLING FOR ADDITIONAL  SAMPLING AT ALL PROPERTIES SUSPECTED OF BEING CONTAMINATED,  AND EXCAVATION AND OFF SITE DISPOSAL OF CONTAMINATED SOIL.     EPA REQUESTED ACCESS TO EACH PROPERTY TO PERFORM SAMPLING  AND, IF CONTAMINATION WAS FOUND, ACCESS TO PERFORM THE       REMEDIAL WORK.  THE PROPOSED DEFENDANT REFUSED ACCESS.  EPA  ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER FOR ACCESS TO THE PROPOSED    DEFENDANT.  THE PROPOSED DEFENDANT REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH    THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER.

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