# YANKEE CHEMICAL CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `639`
- **Case Number:** 01-1997-0081
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $50K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMBROID COMPANY INC (complaint) (settlement)
- CONTRACT PACKAGING CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- J FRANK STRAUSS (complaint) (settlement)
- ROBERT KUZARA (complaint) (settlement)
- YANKEE CHEMICAL CORPORATION (settlement)
## Summary

YANKEE CHEMICAL & AMBROID CO INC OPERATED OUT OF           600 WEST WATER ST SITE. YANKEE WAS A CHEMICAL REPACKAGER     AND BLENDER. AMBROID WAS A GLUE MANUFACTURER. BOTH OPERATED  OUT OF THE SAME SITE AND USED THE SAME STAFF AND MACHINERY.  BOTH WERE OWNED BY J FRANK STRAUSS.                            AFTER INCURRING FINANCIAL AND RCRA PROBLEMS, THE COMPANIES TRANSFERRED THEIR ASSETS TO A HOLDING COMPANY AND ULTIMATELY TO CONTRACT PACKAGING (CPC). CPC OPERATED OUT OF THE SITE    FROM JANUARY 1985 TO FEBRUARY 1986. AT THE CONCLUSION OF ITS OPERATIONS, CPC DECLARED BANKRUPTCY AND ABANDONED THE SITE.    ON 3/6/92 STARTED THE REMOVAL PROCESS WHICH CONCLUDED ON   6/17/92. EPA INCURRED OVER $700,000 IN RESPONSE COSTS. ON    6/11/97 WE ASKED THE PRPS TO SIGN A TOLLING AGREEMENT. THEY  REFUSED AND WE FILED A CIVIL COMPLAINT IN MASSACHUSETTS      DISTRICT COURT ON JUNE 6, 1997.

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