# LOWRY LANDFILL SITE/DE MINIMIS SETTLEMENT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49697`
- **Case Number:** 08-1993-0256
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $654K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LOWRY LANDFILL SITE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN THE CASE OF A FACILITY WHERE THE TOTAL RESPONSE COSTS     EXCEED $500,000, A CLAIM FOR COSTS UNDER SECTION 107 OF      CERCLA MAY BE COMPROMISED AND SETTLED ONLY WITH THE PRIOR    WRITTEN APPROVAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.  BY THIS REFERRAL  LETTER, REGION VIII IS SEEKING SUCH APPROVAL OF THE ENCLOSED ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE DE     MINIMIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.  UNDER THE TERMS OF THE        AGREEMENT, 5 PARTIES WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR SETTLEMENT,        COLLECTIVELY REPRESENTING APPROXIMATELY .04% OF THE TOTAL    WASTE AT THE SITE.  THIS SETTLEMENT IS APPROPRIATELY VIEWED  AS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS LOWRY LANDFILL DE MINIMIS    SETTLEMENT MADE EFFECTIVE ON 03/22/93, AOC CERCLA 93-04.     EPA RETAINED ITS ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF REMEDIATING THE     SITE AT $536,000,000 AND THE SAME CUMULATIVE WASTE TOTAL FOR THE SITE, 142,295,420 GALLONS.  THIS IS A TEN POINT          SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT FOR APPROXIMATELY $653,700.

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