# ARCTIC SURPLUS
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54282`
- **Case Number:** 10-1991-0225
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $500K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY (settlement)
## Summary

EPA ISSUED A CONSENT ORDER TO DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY     RELATING TO THE ARCTIC SURPLUS SITE.  DEFENSE LOGISTICS      AGENCY IS A SIGNIFICANT GENERATOR OF SCRAP INCLUDING         TRANSFORMERS, PCB OILS, AND ASBESTOS AT THE ARCTIC SURPLUS   SITE.  MUCH OF THEIR MILITARY SURPLUS PROPERTY WAS DISPOSED  OF AT THE ARCTIC SURPLUS SALVAGE YARD WHICH IS OWNED BY CARL PEDERSON.                                                      PURSUANT TO THIS ORDER, DLA AGREED TO PAY EPA $500,000.00  UP FRONT FOR CLEANUP, PROVIDE THE LAB ANALYSIS AND PAY AN    ADDITIONAL $500,000.00 IF NECESSARY.  WITH THIS MONEY EPA IS CONDUCTING SOIL SAMPLING AT THE SITE AND ANY NECESSARY       REMOVAL ACTIVITIES.                                            THE SITE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD AND PCB   SOIL CONTAMINATION.                                            A PREVIOUS ORDER WAS ENTERED INTO WITH DLA LAST SUMMER     PURSUANT TO WHICH DLA CONDUCTED NUMEROUS REMOVAL ACTIVITIES.

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