# NL INDUSTRIES, INC. (MPRSA)
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1916`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0011
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN 1980 EPA COMMENCED & SETTLED A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST NL  INDUSTRIES, INC. FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CAA.  IN THAT LITIGA- TION NL COUNTERCLAIMED AGAINST EPA, ALLEGING THAT CERTAIN    CONDITIONS IN ITS EPA-ISSUED OCEAN DUMPING PERMIT WERE IM-   PROPER.  2 CONSENT DECREES WERE ENTERED BY COURT, ONE ON THE CAA ISSUES, THE OTHER ON THE OCEAN DUMPING ISSUES.  THE LAT- TER DECREE PROVIDED UNTIL THE END OF 1981 FOR NL TO CEASE    DUMPING CERTAIN MATERIALS IN THE OCEAN & UNTIL THE END OF    1989 TO CEASE DUMPING ALL OTHER MATERIALS.  IN 1982 THIS RE- GION ENTERED INTO AN ADMINISTRATIVE CONSENT AGREEMENT &      FINAL ORDER IN WHICH A CIVIL PENALTY WAS ASSESSED FOR VIOLA- TIONS OF THE 1981 DEADLINE.  IN 1983 AN AMENDED CONSENT      AGREEMENT & REVISED FINAL ORDER WERE ISSUED BECAUSE NL HAD   SHUT DOWN ITS FACILITY & CEASED OCEAN DUMPING.  THEREFORE,   THE CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED IN THE 1982 CONSENT AGREEMENT &   FINAL ORDER WAS REDUCED.  HOWEVER, PRIOR TO EPA'S CASHING    THE PAYMENT CHECK, THE AMENDED CONSENT AGREEMENT PROVIDED    THAT THE COURT BE ADVISED OF THE SETTLEMENT.  ALTHOUGH SEV-  ERAL DRAFTS OF THE COURT PAPERS HAVE BEEN PREPARED AT VARI-  OUS TIMES, THE COURT HAS YET TO BE SO ADVISED.  ON FEB. 26,  1985, REGION II WAS INFORMED THAT THE DOJ REQUIRED A FORMAL  REFERRAL & LITIGATION REPORT IN THIS MATTER BEFORE IT COULD  REPRESENT EPA IN THIS MATTER.  THIS REFERRAL IS FOR THE COL- LECTION OF A CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED PURSUANT TO SECTION 105  OF THE MPRSA OF 1972.

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