# IMPERIAL SUGAR COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2009 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1400023595`
- **Case Number:** 04-2009-2005
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- IMPERIAL SUGAR COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1/8/09 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $5,240 FOR THE CERCLA VIOLATION, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS. ON JANUARY 30, 2008, RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE ABOVE THE REPORTABLE QUANTITY AT ITS FACILITY. EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF CERCLA SECTION 103(a) BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC AS SOON AS RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN IT RQ.

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