# SAHARA HOLDINGS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `17199`
- **Case Number:** 03-1996-0024
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $493
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $45K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DAVID MARSHALL (complaint)
- SAHARA HOLDING COMPANY, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SAUOD, ALLEN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE FACILITY IS COMPRISED OF ONE THREE STORY APARTMENT    BUILDING.  ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 3, 1995, FOLLOWING AN        INSPECTION OF THE FACILITY, THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA       DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE OF ENVIRON-  MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ISSUED AN INTERIM CEASE AND DESIST    ORDER TO DAVID MARSHALL AND SAHARA REQUIRING MARSHALL AND SA SAHARA TO CEASE AND DESIST ALL DEMOLITION AND SALVAGE WORK   BEING DONE SO AS TO PROPERLY PROTECT THE HEALTH OF EMPLOYEES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.  THAT ORDER NOTED THE FOLLOWING      VIOLATIONS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA ASBESTOS CONTROL VIRGINIA    AND/OR 64 CSR 63:  DEMOLITION/RENOVATION WITHOUT NOTIFICATIO NOTIFICATION, DISTURBANCE OF ASBESTOS CONTAINING BUILDING    MATERIAL, AND FAILURE TO PROVIDE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIP-  MENT TO THOSE WORKING AT THE FACILITY.  SINCE THAT ORDER WAS ISSUED, AND ENTERED THE BUILDING AND PERFORMED ADDITIONAL    RENOVATION/DEMOLITION ACTIVITIES.                               THERE IS AN IMMINENT RISK OF IRREPARABLE HARM AT AND NEAR THE BROADDUS APARTMENTS BECAUSE THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT        AMOUNTS OF FRIABLE ASBESTOS CONTAINING MATERIALS, INCLUDING  ASBESTOS CONTAINING PLASTER AND PLASTER DUST, THROUGHOUT     THE BUILDING.  AS MANY OF THE WINDOWS AND DOORS TO THE       BUILDING HAVE BEEN REMOVED, THIS DUST IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO      BEING RELEASE INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AS AIR MOVES IN AND OUT O OF THE BUILDING.  OCCUPIED RESIDENCES ARE LOCATED ACROSS THE STREET AND NEXT DOOR TO THE BUILDING.  

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