# YERGER BROTHERS, INC., IN RE
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `17391`
- **Case Number:** 03-1996-0272
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- YERGER BROTHERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1993, EPA FILED AN ADMINISTATIVE COMPLAINT  AGAINST YERGER BROTHERS, INC. ALLEGING THAT YERGER BROTHRS   VIOLATED EPCRA SECTION 313 ON FIVE OCCASIONS. DURING THE     COURSE OF EPAS ADMIN. ACTION, YERGER BROS. WAS FORCED INTO   INVOLUNTARY CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY IN AUGUST 1995. IT WAS      LATER CONVERTED TO CHAPTER 11 PROCEEDINGS.  IN DECEMBER 1995 THE AOJ FOUND YERGER BROS LIABLE FOR ALL FIVE VIOLATIONS     ALLEGED. YERGER BROS AGREED TO SETTLE THE REMAINING PENALTY  ISSUE FOR A PENALTY OF $64,500.  THE BANKRUPTCY REFERRAL     REQUESTS DOJ FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM AGAINST YERGER BROS IN    ORDER TO SECURE PAYMENT OF THE PENALTY.

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