EPA v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
Cost recovery
$300,000
Case summary
REFERRAL WITH CONSENT DECREE FOR PORTION OF PAST COSTS AT MOSS AMERICAN SUPERFUND SITE, WHERE RD/RA IS ONGOING PURSUANT TO A SEPARATE CD WITH MCGEE CHEMICAL COMPANY. MOSS AMERICAN CONTAMINATED THE SITE WITH POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS FROM CREOSOTE OPERATIONS.
Defendants (1)
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANYNamed in complaintNamed in settlement
Facilities (1)
MOSS AMERICAN SUPERFUND SITE
MOSS AMERICAN SUPERFUND SITE, MILWAUKEE, WI, 681790002
Registry ID: 110010700278
Statutes cited
- CERCLA 107A — Cost Recovery
Enforcement conclusions (1)
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANYentered 1997-07-29
Primary law: CERCLA
Timeline (7 milestones)
- 1997-04-29Referred To Dept Of Justice
- 1997-05-16Final Order Lodged
- 1997-05-16Complaint Filed With Court
- 1997-07-29Final Order Entered
- 1997-07-29Concluded
- 1997-08-27Enforcement Action Closed
- 1998-04-09Enforcement Action Data Entered
Case metadata
- EPA activity ID
- 30670
- Case number
- 05-1997-0823
- Lead agency
- EPA
- HQ division
- CER
- Branch
- MMBII
- EPA region
- 05
- Multimedia
- No
- Voluntary self-disclosure
- No
- Primary statute
- Cost Recovery
Sourced verbatim from EPA ECHO Enforcement Case Report for case 05-1997-0823 . Bulk data: ICIS-FEC download summary.
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