# TELEDYNE WAH CHANG
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `55156`
- **Case Number:** 10-1995-0067
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $67K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TELEDYNE WAH CHANG (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PRE-REFERRAL INVOLVES THE FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION TO   SEEK RESPONSE COSTS AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF PURSUANT TO        SECTIONS 106, 107 AND 122 OF CERCLA.                             OPERATIONS AT THE SITE BEGAN IN 1956 WHEN, UNDER         CONTRACT WITH THE U S ATOMIC ENERGY COMISSION, WAH CHANG     CORP BEGAN OPERATION OF THE U S BUREAU OF MINES, ZIRCONIUM   METAL SPONGE PILOT PLANT.  IN ADDITION TO INITIAL ZIRCONIUM  AND HALFNIUM SPONGE PRODUCTION, NEW FACILITIES WERE          SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TANTALUM AND        NIOBIUM, AS IN 1967 WHEN TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES INC PURCHASED   WAH CHANG CORP OF NEW YORK AND BECAME OWNER/OPERATOR OF THE  FACILITY.                                                        TELEDYNE INDUSTRIES INC, THE ONLY IDENTIFIED PRP FOR THE SITE, ENTERED INTO A CONSENT ORDER WITH EPA 5/87 TO CONDUCT  A RI/FS FOR THE SITE.  IN SUMMER OF 1988 EPA AND TWCA        DECIDED TO SEPARATE TWO SLUDGE PONDS AS AN OPERABLE UNIT     FROM THE REST OF THE SITE.  A ROD WAS SIGNED FOR THE         OPERABLE UNIT ON 12/28/98, WHICH SET FORTH THE SELECTED      REMEDIAL ACTION FOR THE SITE.  THE SELECTED REMEDY CONSISTS  OF EXCAVATING, PARTIALLY SOLIDIFYING, AND TRANSPORTING THE   SLUDGE TO A SOLID WASTE LANDFILL OFF-SITE.                       THE PARTIES HELD A PRELIMINARY NEGOTIATION SESSION ON    1/17/90, PRIMARILY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE WAYS OF EXPEDITING    THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS. THE PARTIES ARE IN UNANIMOUS         AGREEMENT THAT IT WOULD BE IN EVERYO

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