# ALBERT TROSTEL & SONS CO., ET AL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `7358`
- **Case Number:** 02-2000-2033
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $800K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALBERT TRUSTEL & SONS CO. (settlement)
- BADGER STATE TANNING CO. (settlement)
- BLACKHAWK LEATHER LTD. (settlement)
- BROWN GROUP, INC. (settlement)
- GARDEN STATE TANNING, INC. (settlement)
- IRVING TANNING COMPANY (settlement)
- PRIME TANNING COMPANY, INC. (settlement)
- S.B. FOOT TANNING COMPANY (settlement)
- SETON COMPANY (settlement)
- VIAD CORP. (settlement)
- WILHELM ENTERPRISES CORPORATION (settlement)
## Summary

THE MARKHAMS SITE IS THE SECOND OF TWO PETER COOPER CORPORATIONS (PCC) SITES ON THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST.  FROM    1955 TO 1971, SOME OF THE WASTES FROM PCC'S ANIMAL GLUE PRODUCTION WERE DISPOSED OF AT THE MARKHAMS SITE.  IN 1972,  38,000 TONS OF WASTE WERE TRANSFERRED FROM PCC'S GOWANDA SITE TO THE MARKHAMS SITE.  THE PRIMARY CONTAMINANT OF       CONCERN IS CHROMIUM WHICH WAS CONTAINED LEATHER SCRAPS PROCESSED BY PCC TO EXTRACT PROTEINS FOR GLUE PRODUCTION.    

RI/FS ORDER WAS ISSUED TO PCC SUCCESSOR CORPORATION AND TEN GENERATORS OF SCRAP WASTES.

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