# CELTOR CHEMICAL CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52430`
- **Case Number:** 09-1993-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $450K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CELESTRE, CARMELO C. (complaint) (settlement)
- CELTOR CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A $6.8 MILLION COST RECOVERY ACTION FOR THE        CELTOR CHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE.  ONE OF THE TWO PRP'S IS THE NOW DEFUNCT CORPORATION THAT OPERATED AN ORE PROCESSING      MILL AT THE SITE, LOCATED ON THE HOOPA INDIAN RESERVATION    IN HUMBULDT COUNTY, CA.  THE CORPORATION'S SOLE REMAINING    ASSET IS A COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY  THAT WAS IN EFFECT DURING THE PERIOD OF DISPOSAL OF          HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.                                          THE OTHER PRP IS THE FORMER PRESIDENT, MAJOR STOCKHOLDER,  AND DIRECTOR OF THE CORPORATION WHO HAD SUBSTANTIAL          INVOLVEMENT IN THE CORPORATION'S OPERATIONS AND WHO APPEARED IN KLAMATH TRINITY JUSTICE COURT ON BEHALF OF THE            CORPORATION IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS INITIATED BY THE CALIF.  DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME FOR DISPOSAL OF ORE-PROCESSING   WASTES INTO THE TRINITY RIVER.

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