# ARTEL CHEMICAL CO.,
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · EPA Did Not Pursue
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `10890`
- **Case Number:** 03-1986-0726
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** EPA Did Not Pursue
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARTEL CHEMICAL CO. (complaint)
- C.S.T., INC. (complaint)
- FIKE CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

FIKE CHEMICALS, INC. MANUFACTURES ORGANIC & INORGANIC     CHEMICALS, PLASTIC & RUBBER CHEMICALS, PESTICIDES, & AGRI-   CULTURAL CHEMICALS IN NITRO, WV. COOPERATIVE SEWAGE TREAT-   MENT, INC. (C.S.T.), ALSO IN NITRO, IS AN INDUSTRIAL SEWER-  AGE TREATMENT SYSTEM THAT RECEIVES WASTE STEAMS FROM FIKE.   C.S.T. IS A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF FIKE. FIKE ALSO MAKES ALL PURCHASING DECISIONS FOR C.S.T. THE FACILITIES ARE NOT   CONTIGUOUS, BUT ARE LINKED BY PIPE LINES.                       BOTH DEFS RECIEVED A LETTER ON 3/14/86 FROM EPA NOTIFYING THEM THAT INTERIM STATUS FOR THE TREATMENT & STORAGE OF HAZ- ARDOUS WASTE UNDER RCRA HAD TERMINATED AT THEIR FACILITIES   BECAUSE OF THEIR INCOMPLETE PART B APPLICATION & FAILURE TO  COMPLY W/RCRA'S GROUNDWATER & FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RE-   QUIREMENTS. IN MID-MAY, 1986, A NEW YORK BASED COMPANY, ATO- MERGIC CHEMETALS, INC. ATOMERGIC PURCHASED A CONTROLLING     STOCK INTEREST IN FIKE WHICH ALSO RESULTED IN ITS GAINING    TOTAL CONTROL OF C.S.T. BECAUSE OF THE PARENT/SUBSIDIARY RE- LATIONSHIP OF THE 2 COMPANIES.                                  DEFS' VIOLATIONS FALL INTO 3 BOARD CATEGORIES.THESE ARE:  VIOLATIONS OF A 1982 CD INCORPORATING RCRA & CWA COUNTS;     RCRA INTERIM STATUS VIOLATIONS SUBSEQUENT TO THE ENTRY OF    THE CD; & CWA NPDES PERMIT VIOLATIONS.                          THE CD WAS ENTERED IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE     SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WV TO ADDRESS RCRA & CWA VIOLATIONS.    BOTH DEFS ARE PARTIES TO THE CD. THE VI

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