# FITZ FREIGHT, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49654`
- **Case Number:** 08-1993-0212
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FITZ FREIGHT INC (MIDWEST CITY, OK) (complaint)
## Summary

THIS UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER IS IN REFERENCE TO      A TRANSMITTAL OF REMOVAL ORDER FOR THE FITZ FREIGHT FACILITY HEADQUARTERED IN MIDWEST CITY, OKLAHOMA; AND REGARDING AN    INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED 06/28/93, WHEN A TANKER TRUCK         OPERATED BY FITZ FREIGHT OVERTURNED NEAR MILE-MARKER 151 ON  STATE HIGHWAY 141 NEAR WHITEWATER, COLORADO.  APPROXIMATELY  7,000 GALLONS OF PETROLEUM NAPHTHA WAS SPILLED INTO EAST     CREEK RESULTING IN AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE.  APPROXIMATELY 2.8 MILES OF EAST  CREEK INCLUDING SEDIMENTS AND ADJOINING SHORELINE WAS        AFFECTED BY THE SPILL.  EAST CREEK IS A TRIBUTARY TO THE     GUNNISON RIVER WHICH IS A TRIBUTARY TO THE COLORADO RIVER.   APPROXIMATELY 42,000 GALLONS OF CONTAMINATED WATER WITH      PRODUCT WERE REMOVED DURING THE INITIAL CLEANUP ACTIVITIES   ON OR ABOUT 06/29/92.  THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS REMOVED     FROM THE SPILL SITE IN JULY, 1992.  ON 07/17/92, EPA         REJECTED A PLAN FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF THE SPILLED MATERIAL.  ON 08/05/92, EPA APPROVED A REVISED PLAN FOR BIOREMEDIATION. THREE TREATMENT CELLS WERE CONSTRUCTED NEAR THE SPILL SITE   TO CONTAIN THE CONTAMINATED SOIL.  THE PETROLEUM NAPTHA      CONTAMINATED WATER WAS APPLIED TO THE CONTAMINATED SOIL AND  BOTH WERE TREATED USING BIOREMEDIATION.  ON 11/19/92 EPA     SUBMITTED TO FITZ FREIGHT A NOTICE OF FEDERAL INTEREST IN A  POLLUTION INCIDENT IN RESPONSE TO THE SUSPICION THAT THE     BIOREMEDIATION WAS NOT EFFECTIVELY C

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