# PACIFIC INTERMEDIATES
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52216`
- **Case Number:** 09-1990-0029
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $380K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ADAMS, BENJAMIN LYNN (complaint) (settlement)
- BEMER, VIRGINIA  (TRUSTEE OF RISNER) (complaint) (settlement)
- J.R. INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
- PACIFIC INTERMEDIATES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL RECOMMENDS LITIGATION TO RECOVER             APPROXIMATELY $266,000 SPENT BY EPA IN CONNECTION WITH       AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION AT THE PACIFIC INTERMEDIATES     SITE IN VENTURA COUNTY, THE CALIFORNIA (THE  SITE ).           PACIFIC INTERMEDIATES WAS A CHEMICAL BLENDING OPERATION    THAT SUPPLIED INGREDIENTS PRIMARILY TO PHARMACEUTICAL        COMPANIES.  THE OPERATION OCCUPIED PART OF A BUILDING        LOCATED IN A MIXED INDUSTRIAL/RESIDENTIAL AREA.  ON APRIL    10, 1989, A FIRE OCCURRED AT PACIFIC INTERMEDIATES,          RESULTING IN RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.  THE VENTURA  COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO THE FIRE, EVACUATED      LOCAL RESIDENTS AND, AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE VENTURA    COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ALLOWED THE FIRE     TO BURN UNTIL POTENTIAL HAZARDS COULD BE POSITIVELY          IDENTIFIED.  AFTER THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED, THE LOCAL      RESPONSE AGENCIES DETERMINED THAT THE SITUATION WAS BEYOND   THEIR CAPABILITIES AND REQUESTED EPA ASSISTANCE.               ON APRIL 12, 1989, EPA ASSUMED THE ROLE OF LEAD AGENCY     AND BEGAN RESPONSE ACTION TO MITIGATE THE IMMEDIATE THREAT   AND TO CLEAN UP THE SITE.  EPA GAVE VERBAL NOTICE TO A       SITE-LANDOWNER REPRESENTATIVE OF POTENTIAL CERCLA LIABILITY, BUT WAS TOLD BY THE REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE TIME CONSTRAINTS PRECLUDED HIS SECURING THE NECESSARY CLEANUP RESOURCES.  EPA MOBILIZED THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE CLEANUP CONTRACTOR AND      INITIATED SITE STABILIZATION.         

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