# IN RE NICOLET, INC. ET AL
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9657`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0028
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $1.45M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NICOLET INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- T & N (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

=> THIS IS A PROPOSED RECOUPMENT ACTION TO RECOVER COST EXPENDED BY EPA AT THE NICOLET SITE. TO DATE THESE COSTS ARE APPROX. $796,700.00                                               => NICOLET IS THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE    NICOLET SITE, LOCATED IN AMBLER, PA. THIS SITE IS ADJACENT   TO NICOLET'S MANUFACTURING FACILITY WHERE ARTICLES CONTAIN-  ING ASBESTOS ARE PRODUCED. THE SITE HAS 2 LARGE WASTE PILES  LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY. BOTH PILES ARE LOCATED NEAR         RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN AMBLER AND ONE OF THE PILES WAS NEXT    TO A PLAYGROUND WHICH HAS SINCE CLOSED.                           => IN SEPT 1983 EPA CONDUCTED TESTS AT THE SITE. AIR,   WATER, SOIL, WIPE AND PILE SAMPLES WERE TAKEN. ANALYSIS OF   THESE SAMPLES CONFIRMED THAT ASBESTOS WAS PRESENT IN THE     NICOLET PILES, IN THE ADJACENT PLAYGROUND, ON THE PICNIC     TABLE, THE SLIDING BOARD, THE MERRY-GO-ROUND & IN PART OF    THE LOCUST ST PILE WHICH HAD VISIBLY MIGRATED THROUGH THE    PLAYGROUND FENCE AS WELL AS IN WATER SAMPLES TAKEN DOWN-     STREAM AND IN ONE AIR SAMPLE.

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*