# NICKEL SOLUTION RECYCLING INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52042`
- **Case Number:** 09-1983-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $200K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FEINSTEIN, RONALD
- LANIER ENTERPRISES
- MARATHON BATTERY CORPORATION
- NICKEL SOLUTION RECYCLING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION
- SAFT AMERICA
- WEISBROD, PAUL
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                              ON FEBRUARY 18, 1983, EPA WAS ADVISED BY THE STATE OF   CALIFORNIA OF THE EXISTENCE OF TWO ILLEGAL DRUM STORAGE      SITES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOTH OPERATED BY NICKEL SOLU-    TION RECYCLING, INC. ( NSR ).  AFTER VERIFYING THAT RE-      LEASES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES FROM THE SITES THREATENED     PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, EPA NOTIFIED THE RE-      SPONSIBLE PARTIES OF THEIR PARTY CLEANUP.  THE PARTIES DE-   CLINED TO TAKE OVER RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLEANUP OF THE SITES.      ON MARCH 17, 1983, THE OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND        EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPROVED CERCLA FUNDING UP TO $136,000    FOR REMOVAL ACTION AT THE TWO SITES.  FUNDING FOR THIS PRO-  JECT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY INCREASED TO $165,000.  APPROXIMATELY  $210,000 WAS SPENT IN CLEANING UP THE SITES ($160,000 CON-   TRACTOR COSTS, $50,000 ADMINISTRATIVE OVERHEAD COSTS).       DOCUMENTATION OF THESE COSTS IS INCLUDED AS PART OF THE      REFERRAL.  THE RESPONSE ACTION AT BOTH SITES HAS BEEN COM-   PLETED AND DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY ADDITIONAL CLEANUP BY EPA    OR RESPONSIBLE PARTIES.                                           THE SITES ARE LOCATED AT:  15048 DELANO STREET, VAN     NUYS ( DELANO STREET SITE ); AND 11940 SHERMAN ROAD, NORTH   HOLLYWOOD ( SHERMAN ROAD SITE ).  THE DELANO STREET SITE     WAS OPERATED PRIMARILY AS A STORAGE FACILITY BETWEEN 1981    AND 1983.  THE SHERMAN ROAD SITE WAS ALSO USED FOR STORAGE   DURING THE PERIOD DECEMBER, 1982 AND M

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