# YAWORSKI LAGOON
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `732`
- **Case Number:** 01-1997-0177
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $3.00M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BEMIS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- PERVEL INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN 1990 AN RD/RA CONSENT DECREE WAS ENTERED. UNDER THE    CD, ALL OBLIGATIONS FALL ON PERVEL IN THE FIRST INSTANCE,    THE CD PROVIDED THAT IF EPA DETERMINED PERVEL COULD NOT      CONTINUE SITE WORK, CD OBLIGATION WOULD FALL ON THE OTHER    SIGNATORIES (THE OWNER/OPERATOR AND LOW VOLUME GENERATORS).     IN THE FALL OF 1993 PERVEL CEASED ALL SITE WORK AND IN    INFORMED EP IT HAD NO FUNDS TO CONTINUE. EPA SUBSEQUENTLY    ENTERED DE MINIMIS SETTLEMENTS WITH LOW VOLUME GENERATORS.   SITE WORK CONTINUED UNTIL 1996, FUNDED BY BEMIS (PERVEL'S    PARENT & THE OWNERS/OPERATORS.                                  IN 1996 BEMIS REFUSED TO CONTRIBUTE FURTHER TO THE        CLEAN-UP AND THE OWNERS/OPERATORS STATED THEY HAD NO ABILITY TO CONTINUE FUNDING THE WORK. EPA THEN REFERRED A CASE       AGAINST BEMIS FOR FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE AND MULTIPLE OTHER   COUNTS OF FRAUDULENTLY TRANSFERRING PERVEL'S ASSETS TO       BEMIS. EPA IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE  COUNTS AGAINST THE OWNER OPERATORS, YAWORSKI INC AND ROSE    YAWORSKI.

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