# SURGICAL SPECIALTIES CORP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18791`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0041
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SURGICAL SPECIALTIES CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON DECEMBER 30, 1999, EPA REGION III ISSUED AN               ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY ORDER (APO) TO SURGICAL SPECIALITIES  CORP.,FOR VIOLATION OF THE PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS OF THE  CLEAN WATER ACT, 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1317, AND ITS             IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS, 40 C.F.R. SECTION 403 AND 433. THE APO ALLEGES THAT SURGICAL SPECIALTIES, A MANUFACTURER OF     PRECISION MEDICAL DEVICES LOCATED IN SHILLINGTON, BERKS      COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, VIOLATED LIMITS ON THE DISCHARGE OF    LEAD OF PUBLICLY-OWNED WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS.  EPA      SEEKS PENALTIES OF $19,000 AGAINST SURGICAL SPECIALTIES FOR  THESE VIOLATIONS.

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