# KAISER ALUMINUM/ARRCOM
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54188`
- **Case Number:** 10-1990-0018
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $235K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ACR INC (UNITED PAINT)
- ARCO (ANACONDA ALUM/COLUMBIA FALLS ALUM) (complaint) (settlement)
- BINGHAM, WARREN (complaint) (settlement)
- COLUMBIA LIGHTING (complaint) (settlement)
- DREXLER, GEORGE W (complaint) (settlement)
- DREXLER, THOMAS A (complaint) (settlement)
- KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- PICKETT, ALLEN
- U.S. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMIN
- U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
## Summary

LITIGATION REFERRAL FOR COST RECOVERY ACTION UNDER        SECTION 107 OF CERCLA.  SEEKING TO RECOVER APPROXIMATELY $2  MILLION IN COSTS EXPENDED PURSUANT TO A FUND-FINANCED PHASED CERCLA SECTION 104 REMOVAL ACTION CONDUCTED DURING 9/83,     5/18/87 - 2/17/88, AND 4/90 AT ARRCOM INC SUPERFUND SITE IN  RATHDRUM, ID.                                                  THE SITE IS AN ABANDONED WASTE-OIL RECYCLING FACILITY IN   KOOTENAI COUNTY NEAR RATHDRUM.  THE FACILITY WAS ABANDONED   1/82 AFTER BEING OPERATED BY A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT           INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS OVER 20 YEARS.                    ON 9/8/83 THE SITE WAS PLACED ON THE NPL LIST.  EPA        CONDUCTED AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION IN 8/83 DURING WHICH   EPA DRAINED THE ON-SITE TANKS OF THEIR PUMPABLE CONTENTS AND REMOVED HIGHLY CONTAMINATED OILS AND SOILS.  THE TANKS AND   SOME SLUDGES CONTAINED THEREIN WERE LEFT AT THE SITE AND NO  FENCING WAS BUILT.  IN 1986 EPA RECEIVED INFORMATION THAT    THE PRESENCE OF OIL AND SLUDGES IN THE TANKS ON-SITE POSED A CONTINUED DANGER.  THE PRESENCE OF THIS OIL INDICATED THAT   CONTINUED OIL STORAGE ACTIVITY MAY HAVE TAKEN PLACE AFTER    THE 8/82 REMOVAL.  BETWEEN 5/87 AND 2/88 EPA REMOVED         CONTAMINATED OIL, SLUDGES AND ON-SITE TANKS. EXTENSIVE       SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS WAS CONDUCTED AT THE COMPLETION OF     THIS PHASE TO DETERMINE IF THE SITE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR    DE-LISTING.  THIS SAMPLING REVEALED ELEVATED LEVELS OF LEAD  CONTAMINATED SOIL WHICH NECESSITATED AD

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