# INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52724`
- **Case Number:** 09-1997-0011
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $50K
- **Compliance action $:** $650K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, INC. (complaint)
- INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING (complaint)
- NL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint)
- TRI-VALLEY GROWERS (complaint)
## Summary

ON APRIL 23, 1997, THE UNITED STATES LODGED A CONSENT      DECREE WITH THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN          DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA IN FRESNO.  UNDER THE TERMS OF        THE CONSENT DECREE, FOUR POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES     HAVE AGREED TO PERFORM A NON-TIME CRITICAL REMOVAL ACTION    FOR THE SOILS OPERABLE UNIT AT THE INDUSTRIAL WASTE          PROCESSING SUPERFUND SITE.  THE FOUR PRPS ARE:  AMERICAN     NATIONAL CAN COMPANY; CONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY, INC.,         REPRESENTED BY CROWN BEVERAGE PACKAGING, INC.; NL INDUSTRIES INC.; AND TRI-VALLEY GROWERS.  THE RESPONSE ACTION WILL      INVOLVE THE EXCAVATION OF ONSITE AND SURROUNDING OFFSITE     SURFACE SOILS CONTAINING LEAD IN EXCESS OF 400 MG/KG AND     VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN EXCESS IF 7 MG/KG, AND THE     TRANSPORTATION OF THAT CONTAMINATED SOILS TO AN OFFSITE      TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITY.  IN ADDITION TO PERFORMING  THE RESPONSE ACTION THE SETTLING PRPS WILL PAY $500,000      IN PAST COSTS.  (UNDER A PRIOR ADMINISTRATIVE SETTLEMENT     EPA RECEIVED PAYMENT OF APPROXIMATELY $1.3 MILLION IN PAST   COSTS).  EPA IS ALSO IMPLEMENTING THE ORPHAN SHARE REFORM    AT THE SITE BY PROVIDING FOR A REDUCTION OF OVERSIGHT        COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $163,000.                               IWP CONDUCTED OPERATIONS AS AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE            RECLAMATION FACILITY BETWEEN 1966 AND 1981.  DURING IWP'S    YEARS OF OPERATION VARIOUS TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES WERE   SENT TO THE SITE, INCLUDING SPENT SOLV

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