# STANDARD STEEL - RD/RA CD
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `55461`
- **Case Number:** 10-1997-0170
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $8.40M
- **Compliance action $:** $5.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALASKA RAILROAD CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- CHUGACH ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- SEARS, ROEBUCK AND COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERENCE A91-0589-CIV, REFERRAL REQUESTS DOJ SIMULTANEOUSLY FILE AN                                                      AMENDED COMPLAINT IN THIS MATTER, ADD A SECTION 106 CLAIM    AND LODGE                                                    RD/RA CONSENT DECREE NEGOTIATED WITH ALL DEFENDANTS, EXCEPT  MONTGOMERY                                                   WARD.  UNDER THE CD, THE SETTLING DEFENDANTS AGREE TO        PERFORM CLEANUP                                              WORK VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $6 MILLION REQUIRED BY THE      RECORD OF                                                    DECISION, PERFORM LONG-TERM O & M , AND REIMBURSE THE U.S.   ALL OF ITS                                                   FUTURE RESPONSE COSTS.  MONTGOMERY WARD DID NOT ENTER INTO   THE                                                          SETTLEMENT DUE TO ITS RECENT BANKRUPTCY.  EPA AGREED TO      COMPROMISE                                                   APPROXIMATELY $53,000 OF ITS FUTURE OVERSIGHT COSTS TO       OFFSET A PORTION                                             OF THE SHORTFALL CAUSED BY MONTGOMERY WARD'S BANKRUPTCY.  A  PREVIOUS                                                     PAST COST CONSENT DECREE WAS ENTERED BY THE U.S. DISTRICT    COURT FOR THE                                                DISTRICT OF ALASKA UNDER WHICH THE U.S. RECOVERED PAST       RESPONSE COSTS                                               INCURRED AT THE SITE.  (SEE DOCKET N

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