# SERAFINI, LOUIS ET AL (TAYLOR BOROUGH SITE)
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9818`
- **Case Number:** 03-1985-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** $2.35M
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CAN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- BAUMAN, JOHN C. (complaint) (settlement)
- BERNABEI, ALFRED (complaint) (settlement)
- BRIDY, DORA (complaint) (settlement)
- BUTTAFOCO, ERNEST (complaint) (settlement)
- CHAMBERLAIN MANUFACTURING CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- EMPIRE CONTRACTING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- EVANISH, ANDREW (complaint) (settlement)
- KOZAR, EVELYN ELIZABETH (complaint) (settlement)
- KOZAR, MICHAEL (complaint) (settlement)
- LACKAWANNA REFUSE REMOVAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTON BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTON INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LITTON SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NAPLES, MICHAEL J., JR. (complaint) (settlement)
- O.S.C. COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- RCA CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- RINALDI, C.E. (complaint) (settlement)
- SCRANTON, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
- SERAFINI, LOUIS (complaint) (settlement)
- TECHNOGRAPHICS FITCHBURG COATED PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
- TECHNOGRAPHICS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE TAYLOR BOROUGH SITE IS AN OLD LANDFILL AREA IN TAYLOR BOROUGH, PA, WHICH WAS PARTIALLY CLEANED UP BY EPA W/CERCLA  REMOVAL FUNDS IN THE FALL OF 1983.  DUMPING OCCURRED AT THE  SITE FROM 5/67 TO 3/68, DURING WHICH TIME THE CITY OF SCRAN- TON OPERATED THE LANDFILL.                                      THE SITE WAS ASSESSED IN 1981 AND DETERMINED TO BE A LOW  PRIORITY.  IT WAS REASSESSED AND BECAUSE OF A LARGER QUANITY OF DRUMS THAN ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED, THE SITE WAS PROPOSED    FOR LISTING ON THE CERCLA NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST IN 9/83.  ADDITIONALLY, A FIRE OCCURRED IN 9/83, WHICH SPURRED EPA TO  ALLOCATE EMERGENCY REMOVAL FUNDS FOR CLEAN UP OF SURFACE     DRUMS.  EPA HAS IDENTIFIED SEVERAL CATEGORIES OF POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES, INCLUDING GENERATORS, TRANSPORTERS,     OWNERS AND OPERATORS. IN 3/85, REG III RECOMEMMENDED TO HQ   THAT A COST RECOVERY ACTION BE FILED UNDER SEC 107 OF CERCLA 42 U.S.C. SEC 9607 FOR RECOVERY OF MONIES EXPENDED DURING    THE REMOVAL PORTION OF EPA'S ACTIVITIES.  THE REMEDIAL IN-   VESTIGATION WAS BEGUN IN 1983 AND A DRAFT FINAL REMEDIAL     INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS ISSUED BY EPA FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON 5/20/85.  EPA IS CURRENTLY NEGOTIATING W/THE PO-  TENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTIES FOR THE NECESSARY REMEDIAL     WORK. NEGOTIATIONS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY.

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