# CHASE INTERIORS
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `5213`
- **Case Number:** 02-1995-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $127K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHASE INTERIORS, INC (settlement)
- HBSA INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REQUEST FOR FILING PROOF OF CLAIM IN CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY    PROCEEDING TO THE DOJ ON JANUARY 30, 1995.                     ON AUGUST 13, 1991, THE DEBTORS (HBSA INDUSTRIES, INC. AND CHASE INTERIORS, INC.) FILED PETITIONS UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF   THE BANKRUPTCY CODE IN THE U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE     WESTERN DISTRICT OF NY.                                        NYSDEC SUBMITTED A PROOF OF CLAIM ON MAY 26, 1992 FOR A    GENERAL UNSECURED CLAIM OF AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT.             EPA PERFORMED PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS OF THE SITE ON       SEPTEMBER 13-15, 1993 AND SEPTEMBER 27, 1993.  ACCORDING TO  THE ACTION MEMORANDUM DATED JAN. 13, 1994 AND PREPARED BY    THE RESPONSE AND PREVENTION BRANCH OF EPA, A SIGNIFICANT     THREAT OF RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES EXISTED AT THE     SITE.                                                                        RELIEF REQUESTED                               THE REGION RECOMMENDS THAT THE PROOF OF CLAIM, BE FILED IN THE DEBOTORS' BANKRUPTCY ESTATE OF THE COSTS INCURRED BY     EPA AT THE SITE APPROXIMATELY $233,705.63.                            FACTS UPON WHICH THE ACTION IS BASED:               HBSA INDUSTRIES, INC. IS THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE SITE AND   WAS THE OWNER OF THE SITE AT THE TIME OF THE DISPOSAL OF     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE SITE.  CHASE INTERIORS, INC. WAS THE OPERATOR OF THE SITE AT THE TIME OF THE DISPOSAL OF      HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE SITE.  THE SITE IS LOCATED IN    THE VILLAGE OF FALCONER, CHAUTAUQUA 

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