# UNITED MERCHANT & MANUFACTURERS INC
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `5791`
- **Case Number:** 02-1996-0191
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BASF
- EI DUPONT
- GENERAL MOTORS
- PITTSBURGH PLATE & GLASS
- UNITED MERCHANT & MANUFACT'S INC (UM&M) (complaint)
- VICTORIA CREATIONS INC (complaint)
## Summary

BANKRUPTCY REFERRAL ON AUG.9, 1996 TO JUSTICE; REQUEST- ING JUSTICE TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM IN THE UNITED MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS, INC. ( UM&M ) BANKRUPTCY.  UM&M ARRANGED  FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE BAYONNE BARREL   AND DRUM SITE LOCATED IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.                       FACILITY NAME:  BAYONNE BARREL AND DRUM (02-9J)        APPX 15 ACRES BOUNDED BY RAYMOND BLVD, NEWARK, NJ 07105      *                                                            08/09/96 - BNK REFERRAL                                      08/19/96 - PROOF OF CLAIM FILED (2 DEFS NAMED)               REASSIGNED TO S. FLANAGAN EPA ATTORNEY JUNE 2001.            NOTE:  THE FACILITY IS IN NJ BUT THE COURT IS THE SDNY.      *                                                            08/11/2000 - EPA, AS A GENERAL UNSECURED CREDITOR, RECEIVED        $0.  THE CASE WAS CLOSED ON 8/11/2000 BEFORE IT WAS          ASSIGNED TO THE PRESENT ATTORNEY.  SINCE THERE WERE NO       $'S INVOLVED THE CASE IS CLOSED (NO SETTLEMENT IS            ENTERED BECAUSE NONE EVER RECEIVED).

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