# WILKES UNIVERSITY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2008 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1000009889`
- **Case Number:** 03-2008-6017
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- WILKES UNIVERSITY (settlement)
## Summary

SELF DISCLOSURE - ON JUNE 23, 2008, EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF DTERMINATION ( NOD )BASED ON SELF-DISCLOSURES PROVIDED BY WILKES UNIVERSITY PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA ( AICKP ) AND EPA DATED MARCH 24, 2004, REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT ( RCRA ), THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ) AND THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT ( TSCA ), AT WILKES UNIVERSITY AND FOUR TARGET HOUSING UNITS, LOCATED IN WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

THE TOTAL GRAVITY-BASED CIVIL PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATIONS WOULD BE $103,158.00.  SINCE WILKES UNIVERSITY SATISFIED ALL OF THE CONDITIONS OF EPA'S SELF-DISCLOSURE POLICY AND THE AMOUNT OF ECONOMIC BENEFIT GAINED WAS INSIGNIFICANT, EPA WAIVED THE GRAVITY-BASED CIVIL PENALTY FOR THE DISCLOSED VIOLATIONS.

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