U.S. v. BELL PETROLEUM SERVICES, INC.

No. MO-88-CA-05.

734 F.Supp. 771 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America v. BELL PETROLEUM SERVICES, INC., et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Texas, Midland-Odessa Division.

March 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Nowak, U.S. Trustee's Office, Winstanley F. Luke, U.S. Atty's. Office, San Antonio, Tex., Barbara A. Finamore, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Harry Kelso, Peter R. Mounsey and Craig E. Johnson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., and Thomas R. Bartman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S. E.P.A.

James E. Ross, Houston, Tex., for Southern American Ins. Co.

Eugene B. Labay, Thomas A. Countryman, Kevin M. Beiter and Walter J. Batla, Cox & Smith, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., and Gerald P. Keith, H. Christopher Mott and Leslie M. Luttrell, Ginnings, Birkelbach, Keith & Delgado, El Paso, Tex., for Bell Petroleum Services, Inc.

W.B. Browder, Jr., Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, Tex., for Regal Intern., Inc.

Michael T. Morgan, Morgan & Ward, Midland, Tex., for John R. Leigh.

James B. Harris and Scott D. Deatherage, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, Tex., for Chromalloy American Corp. and Sequa Corp.

R. Brent Cooper, Michael W. Huddleston and Judith H. Winston, Cowles & Thompson, Dallas, Tex., for Puritan Ins. Co.

David C. McCue, Maloney & Smith, Dallas, Tex., and Walter J. Batla, Cox & Smith, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., for Ranger Ins. Co.

Marc Randall May, Odessa, Tex., for Eddie Wright.

Eddie Wright, Odessa, Tex., pro se.

William R. Barnes, Odessa, Tex., for NIPCO, Inc.

Jack Q. Tidwell, McMahon, Tidwell, Hansen, Atkins & Fowler, P.C., Odessa, Tex., for Stell Chrome, State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. and Trinity Universal Co.

Stewart McKeehan, Browning & McKeehan, Odessa, Tex., for Spearman Radiator and Supply and Dudley's Radiator.

Jack Q. Tidwell and Michael Douglas Atkins, McMahon, Tidwell, Hansen, Atkins & Fowler, P.C., Odessa, Tex., for Triple H. Chrome Plating.

Winstanley F. Luke, U.S. Atty's Office, San Antonio, Tex., and Thomas R. Bartman, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Small Business Admin.

Michael Lowenberg, Steven M. Morgan and Jeff Glass, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., for Kerr-McGee Corp.

Marc A. Sheiness and Jose A. Berlanga, Hirsch, Glover, Robinson & Sheiness, Houston, Tex., for Southland Royalty Co.

Max Edwin Wright, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, P.C., Midland, Tex., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Timothy D. Yeats and Richard L. Palmer, Little, Palmer & Williams, Big Spring, Tex., for Pacific Indem. Co. and Chubb and Son, Inc.

William M. Kerr, Kerr, Fitzgerald & Kerr, Midland, Tex., and John G. Niles and Ralph W. Dau, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., for Cigna Property Cas. Ins. Co.

Russell S. Johnson, Donald D. Gavlick and Mary T. Mishtal, Sawtelle, Goode, Davidson & Troilo, San Antonio, Tex., for U.S. Fire Ins. Co.

George V. Basham, III, Lloyd, Gosselink, Ryan & Fowler, Austin, Tex., and Thomas Butler Alleman, Niewald, Waldeck, Norris & Brown, Houston, Tex., for Granite State Ins. Co.

Donald Warner Griffis, Griffis & Griffis, San Angelo, Tex., for Republic Ins. Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION ON CROSS MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

BUNTON, Chief Judge.

BEFORE THIS COURT are cross Motions for Summary Judgment filed by the Plaintiff and by collective Defendants Sequa and Chromalloy (hereinafter referred to as "Sequa"). The issue before the Court is whether the recovery costs incurred by the Government in its initial response to the chromium contamination found in the Trinity Aquifer underlying the "Chromium I Site" in Odessa, Texas...

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