# CENTURY LAMINATORS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52871`
- **Case Number:** 09-1997-0177
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CENTURY LAMINATORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION FACILITY ( WHIITER SITE )   IS LOCATED IN WHITTER, CALIFORNIA.  THIS SITE IS A           FORMER CHLOROFLUROCARBON ( CFCS ) RECYCLING OPERATION        THAT WAS OPERATED BY DENNIS O'MEARA AND THE OMEGA            CHEMICAL CORPORATION ( OCC ).  EPA HAS BEEN INVOLVED         WITH THE WHITTIER FACILITY SINCE JANUARY 1995, WHEN AN       EPA CONTRACTOR CONDUCTED A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT            OF THE WHITTER SITE AND OBSERVED APPROXIMATELY 3,000+        DRUMS, CONTAINING VARIOUS STAGES OF DETERIORATION, MANY OF   WHICH WERE LEAKING.  OCC'S CONTRACTOR HAD PERFORMED          SOIL SAMPLING AT THE WHITTER SITE IN 1988, THE RESULT        OF WHICH REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF NUMEROUS HAZARDOUS         SUBSTANCES IN THE SUBSURFACE AND GROUNDWATER AT THE          WHITTIER SITE, INCLUDING METHYLENE CHLORIDE,                 TETRACHLOROETHYLENE, AND TRICHLOROETHYLENE.                    EPA SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUING A UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE       ORDER ( UAO ) TO APPROXIMATELY 170 RESPONDENTS.  ONE         OF THE PARTIES NAMED AS RESPONDENT TO THE UAO WAS            CENTURY LAMINATORS, INC. ( CL ).  ON MAY 31, 1995,           CL RESPONDED TO THE UAO, AND NOTIFIED EPA (FOR THE           FIRST TIME DIRECTLY) THAT IT WAS IN BANKRUPTCY, THAT         A REORGANIZATION PLAN WAS IN EFFECT (AND WOULD BE            FOR SIX YEARS FROM ITS CONFIRMATION DATE), AND THAT          THE STATE AND ANY OF THE PRPS  HAD THE OPPORTUNITY           TO CLAIM AN AMOUNT IN THE RESTRUCTURIN

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