# RUSSELL MARTIN BLISS, ET AL.
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42649`
- **Case Number:** 07-1986-0053
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CAN COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

DURING THE LATE 1960S THROUGH THE MID 1970S, GROVER CAL-   -AHAN TRANSPORTED DRUMMED WASTES FROM MANUFACTURING FACIL-   ITIES OWNED & OPERATED BY AMERICAN CAN & GENERAL CABLE CORP  (NOW A SUBSIDIARY OF GK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.) & DISPOSED OF    SOME OF THE DRUMS AT THE ROSALIE SITE.  (THE ROSALIE SITE IS ONE OF THREE NON-CONTIGUOUS PROPERTIES KNOWN COLLECTIVELY AS THE  ELLISVILLE AREA SITE').  BOTH AMERICAN CAN & GENERAL CA BLE HAD ARRANGED WITH RUSSELL MARTIN BLISS, THEN DOING BUSI- ESS AS BLISS WASTE OIL CO. ( OR BLISS WASTE OIL SERVICE),    FOR THE TRANSMITTAL & DISPOSAL OF THEIR WASTES.  BLISS HIRED CALLAHAN TO HAUL WASTES FROM THE DEFENDANTS' FACILITIES.     AT THE TIME OF THE DISPOSAL OF THE WASTES AT THE ROSALIE     SITES, IT WAS OWNED BY HOULIHAN NURSERY COMPANY & A RESIDENT OF THE PROPERTY, AUTHORIZED THE DUMPING OF THE DRUMS BY CAL- LAHAN.  ON AT LEAST ONE OCCASION, HOULIHAN ASSISTED IN THE D DUMPING ACTIVITIES.  (THE OTHER HOULIHAN DEFENDANTS WERE OF- FICERS & DIRECTORS OF HOULIHAN NURSERY AT THE TIME OF THE    FORFEITURE OF ITS CORPORATE CHARTER.  UNDER MISSOURI LAW,    THEY, ALONG WITH JOSEPH HOULIHAN, ARE STATUTORY TRUSTEES OF  THE CORPORATION, MAKING THEM LIABLE FOR THE DEBTS OF THE COR PORATION TO THE EXTENT OF CORPORATE ASSETS DISTRIBUTED TO    THEM.) THE SITE IS PRESENTLY OWNED BY ROSALIE INVESTMENT CO, AN UNINCORPORATED DEVELOPMENT FIRM.                             THE RESULTS OF ANALYSIS SAMPLES TAKEN AT THE SITE DURING  EPA & STATE INVESTIGATIONS EVIDENCE TH

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