# TONOLLI CORPORATION, IN RE
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `10893`
- **Case Number:** 03-1986-0730
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Unspecified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- TONOLLI CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

TONOLLI CORP. IS THE OWNER & OPERATOR OF A USED BATTERY   RECYCLING FACILITY LOCATED IN NESQUEHONING, PA. THE FACILI-  TIES INCLUDES 2 TANKS, A SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT & A LANDFILL    USED FOR TREATMENT, STORAGE &/OR DISPOSAL OF VARIOUS WASTES  GENERATED AT THE FACILITY, INCLUDING EMISSION CONTROL SLUDGE FROM SECONDARY LEAD SMELTING; SLUDGES FROM A NEUTRALIZATION  TREATMENT PROCESS WHICH EXHIBIT THE CHARACTERISTIC OF E.P.   TOXICITY FOR CADMIUM &LEAD; CRUSHED BATTERY CASES EXHIBIT-   ING THE CHARACTERISTIC OF E.P. TOXICITY FOR ARSENIC; &       WASTES EXHIBITING THE CHARACTERISTIC OF CORROSIVITY & THE    CHARACTERISTICS OF EP TOXICITY FOR ARSENIC, CADMIUM, CHRO-   MIUM & LEAD.                                                    ON 5/10/85, REG 3 COMPLETED A REVIEW OF DEF'S GROUNDWATER MONITORING PROGRAM, BASED IN PART ON THE 2 DEF GROUNDWATER   MONITORING REPORTS.  EPA CONCLUDED THAT DEF'S GROUNDWATER    MONITORING SYSTEM IS INADEQUATE. THE DEFICIENCIES CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF 25 PA CODE SEC 75.265(N). UNDER SEC 3008(G)   OF RCRA, 42 USC SEC 6928(G), THE MAXIMUM CIVIL PENALTY FOR   EACH DAY OF SUCH VIOLATION IS $25,000.                          ON 10/29/85, DEF FILED A PETITION FOR REORGANIZATION UN-  DER CHAP 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE. ON 1/24/86, DEF'S CHAP-  TER 11 REORGANIZATION WAS CONVERTED TO A LIQUIDATION PRO-    CEEDING UNDER CHAP 7 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.                    AS A RESULT OF DEF'S BANKRUPTCY, IT BECAME NECESSARY FOR  EPA TO FILE W/THE BANKRUPTCY COURT A  P

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