In re Quanta Resources Corp.

ELR Citation: ELR 20572
No(s). 83-5730 (3d Cir. Jul 20, 1984)

The court rules that a trustee in bankruptcy may not abandon a hazardous waste site where such an abandonment would effect a disposal of waste in contravention of state law. The Quanta trustee proposed to abandon a site in New Jersey containing polychlorinated-biphenyl-contaminated oil. The court ho...