# Anheuser-Bush Incorporated
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2003 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `105009`
- **Case Number:** 02-2003-4134
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Anheuser-Bush Incorporated (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

This is a consolidated action pursuant to our Consolidated Rules of Practice, 40 C.F.R. �22.18(b)(2) and (3), which provide that a proceeding may be simultaneously commenced and concluded by the issuance of a Consent Agreement and Final Order when the parties agree to settle one or more causes of action before the filing of an Administrative Complaint.

A review of the Toxic Release Inventory Envirofacts Database (TRI Database) indicated that Anheuser-Busch Incorporated voluntarily submitted to the EPA late Form R reports for the following:
     Chemical Name	ReportingYear	Report Due	Report Submitted	Days Late
chlorodifluoromethane	1998	July 1, 1999	June 13, 2000	347


On July 8, 2003, a letter was sent to the company to address these late reporting violations and to request additional information.  Based on the information provided by Anheuser-Busch Incorporated�s initial response and subsequent communications the late reporting was confirmed.

This failure to submit the Form R report, in a timely manner, constitutes a violation of Section 313 of EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. �11023, and 40 C.F.R �372.30.  The penalty was initially calculated using the Enforcement Response Policy (ERP) for Section 313 of EPCRA issued by the USEPA Office of Compliance Monitoring, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, on August 10, 1992.  The original proposed penalty would have been $18,103 if an administrative complaint had been issued.

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