# PLC ENTERPRISES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1880`
- **Case Number:** 02-1983-0015
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $23K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PLC ENTERPRISES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DEFENDANT OPERATES PAINT MFTG. PLANT EMPLOYING MORE THAN   20 PEOPLE IN HEART OF DENSELY POPULATED CITY. IGNITABLE HAZ- ARDOUS WASTES ARE STORED IN CARELESS MANNER, ALLOWING VOLA-  TILE ORGANIC WASTES TO ESCAPE INTO THE AIR, AND OTHER HAZ-   ARDOUS WASTES TO FLOW INTO SEWER; THERE IS OPEN SEWER DRAIN  ADJACENT TO HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE AREA.                      DEFENDANT WAS FOUND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATING RCRA REGULATIONS, ISSUED ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT. DEFENDANT NEGOTIATED CON-   SENT AGREEMENT WHICH IT THEN WILLFULLY AND REPEATEDLY VIO-   LATED. THIS ACTION SEEKS A PERMANENT INJUNCTION IN ADDITION  TO CIVIL PENALTY.                                            HAD MADE VIRTUALLY NO ATTEMPT TO COMPLY WITH THE MANAGEMENT  REQUIREMENTS OF THE RCRA REGULATIONS.  FOR EXAMPLE, DEBE-    VOISE HAD NO SCHEDULE OF INSPECTIONS, NO CONTINGENCY PLAN    FOR EMERGENCIES, NO RECORD OF PERSONNEL TRAINING, AND NO     CLOSURE PLAN.                                                     AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED, AND FOLLOWING   NEGOTIATIONS, A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND CONSENT ORDER WAS      SIGNED MARCH 21, 1983.  THE ORDER REQUIRED DEBEVOISE TO TAKE  ACTION, AS AGREED IN THE CONSENT AGREEMENT, TO COME INTO    COMPLIANCE WITH THE RCRA REGULATIONS.  A SECOND INSPECTION   OF THE DEBEVOISE FACILITY WAS CONDUCTED AFTER THE COMPLIANCE  PERIOD, ON MAY 31, 1983, BY THE SAME EPA EMPLOYEE WHO CON-  DUCTED THE EARLIER INSPECTION.  THE SUMMARY OF THE REPORT    OF THE SECOND INSPECTION RECOMMENDED F

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