# MIDVALE SLAG SUPERFUND SITE
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Litigated With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50494`
- **Case Number:** 08-1996-0034
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BUTTERFIELD (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTLESON, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE MIDVALE SLAG SUPERFUND SITE ENCOMPASSES APPROXIMATELY  530 ACRES AND IS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CITY. THE SITE IS DIVIDED INTO 2 OPERATIONAL UNITS(OU). THE 1ST OU'S HISTORY REVEALED THAT THERE WAS NO INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. THE SMELTING ACTIVITIES ARE PRESUMED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE CONTAMINATION.  OU2 IS THE LOCATION OF A FORMER SMELTING AND    REFINING FACILITY.  THE ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED AT OU2 RESULTED IN THE PRODUCTION OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF WASTE MATERIALS CONTAINING ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS OF HEAVY METALS.  THESE      HEAVY METALS HAVE RESULTED IN THE CONTAMINATION OF SOILS AND GROUND WATER.                                           EPA HAS THUS FAR SPENT APPROXIMATELY $5,180,000 ON THE CLEANUP.  SHARON STEEL HAS PAID APPROXIMATELY 5 MILLION OF   THAT TOTAL.  FUTURE COSTS ARE ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND $31     MILLION, HOWEVER, THE U.S. WILL NOT SEEK TO RECOVER THAT     AMOUNT.  NEGOTIATIONS ARE BEING HELD TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF RECOVERY NEEDED FOR OU1 & OU2.

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