# SMITH INTERNATIONAL
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52106`
- **Case Number:** 09-1987-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $150K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SMITH TOOL/ SMITH INTERNATIONAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REGION IX HAS IDENTIFIED SMITH TOOL COMPANY, A DIVISION    OF SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC. AS A POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE    PARTY AT THE OPERATING INDUSTRIES, INC. SITE IN MONTEREY     PARK. JUNE 20, 1986, REGION IX SENT A NOTICE LETTER/REQUEST  FOR INFORMATION TO DOUG ROCK, PRESIDENT OF SMITH TOOL        COMPANY.                                                       IN RESPONSE, THEIR COUNSEL INFORMED US THAT SMITH TOOL IS  A DIVISION OF SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND THAT SMITH       INTERNATIONAL WAS CURRENTLY IN A CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY       PROCEEDING PENDING IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE CENTRAL   DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.  SUBSEQUENT TO THIS, SMITH INTERNAT- IONAL SCHEDULED THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AS AN    UNSECURED CREDITOR IN THIS BANKRUPTCY ACTION.  WE RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION FROM THE U. S. BANKRUPTCY COURT, CENTRAL        DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA.  ON MARCH 10,1987, REGION IX DI-     RECTLY REFERRED THIS MATTER TO THE DEPT. OF JUSTICE FOR THE  FILING OF A PROOF OF CLAIM IN THE BANKRUPTCY ACTION.THE      DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILED THE PROOF OF CLAIM (POC) ON      3/31/87.  ON 5/11/87, HQTRS CONFIRMED THE ORAL REFERRAL      OF THE POC.

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