# LEVIN ENTERPRISES
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52368`
- **Case Number:** 09-1992-0094
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.75M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
- LEVIN ENTERPRISES (complaint) (settlement)
- PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT (complaint) (settlement)
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE REFERRAL REQUESTS THAT DOJ FILE A COMPLAINT, UNDER     SECTION 107 OF CERCLA, TO RECOVER APPROX. $4.3 MILLION IN    RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE CLEANUP OF A FORMER SHIPYARD FACILITY (THE JIBBOM JUNK-  YARD) IN SACRAMENTO, CA.  THE POTENTIAL DEFS INCLUDE LEVIN   ENTERPRISES (THE SUCCESSOR TO THE OWNER/OPERATOR, ASSOCIATED METALS COMPANY), SOTHERN PACIFIC, PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC,    AND THE SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT.                 ASSOCIATED METALS OPERATED A METAL SALVAGE FURNESS IN THE  1950'S AND EARLY 1960'S ON JIBBOOM STREET IN SACRAMENTO.     THE COMPANY SCRAPPED ALL GRADES OF METAL, INCLUDING RAILROAD CARS, AUTOMOBILES, TRANSFORMERS AND LATTERNES.  THE JIBBOOM  SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NPL IN 1982.  ON 5/9/85, REGION IX    APPROVED A RECORD OF DECISION WHICH SELECTED A REMEDY PROVID ING FIOR EXCAVATION AND OFF-SITE DISPOSAL OF CONTAMINATED    SOIL.  EPA UNDERTOOK AND PAID FOR THE REMEDIAL ACTION WITH   MONIES FROM THE HAZ SUBSTANCESUPERFUND.  THE REMEDIAL        ACTION WAS COMPLETED IN MAY 1987.

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