CHEMICALS AND MINERALS RECLAMATION, INC - CLEVELAND, OH FILED 7/10/79, CIVIL ACTION #C-79-1356 US DISTRICT CT FOR NORTHERN DISCTRICT OF OH. THE ORIGINAL 8.4 ACRE CHEM AND MINERALS SITE WAS LOCATED NEAR THE CUYAHOGA RIVER IN CLEVELAND. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT IN A WAREHOUSE AT 421 STONES LEVEE RD WERE SOME 4000 55 GALLONS DRUMS OF SOLID & HAZARDOUS WASTES. NEITHER SITE WAS FENCED AT THE TIME COMPLAINT WAS FILED. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT CHEM & MIN RECLAMATION INC. HAD IMPROPERLY STORED WASTES IN WAREHOUSES FIRES HAD OCCURRED IN PAST AND THREATENED TO DO SO AGAIN AT TIME COMPLAINT WAS FILED. EPA MAINTAINED THAT DEFENDANT'S OPERATNS PRESENTED AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMNT TO NEARBY DOWNTWN POP OF CLEVELAND. THE STATUTORY BASIS FOR EPA'S SUIT IS SEC 7003 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION & RECOVERY ACT. A TEMP RESTRAINING ORDER WAS ISSUED 7/11/79. NEARLY 1 MONTH LATER, THE CT ORDERED REMOVAL OF BARRELS & A GEN CLN UP W/IN 30 DAYS. CHEM AND MIN RECLAMATION DIDN'T HONOR ORDER, & WAS THUS REQUIRED TO SHOW CAUSE ON 9/25/79, WHY THEY HAD NOT MET THE TERMS OF THE ORDER. CLN UP OF THE WAREHOUSES WAS FINALLY COMPLETED ON NOV 28, 1979. UNDER A SECOND ORDER, ISSUED IN OCTOBER, 1979, DEFENDANTS CHEMICALS AND MINERALS RECLAMATION, INC., RODNEY CRONIN, AND/OR JOHN SAMARIN, WERE ORDERED TO PAY ALL OF EPA'S RESPONSE COSTS. (HOWEVER AS OF JULY, 1983, NO DEMAND