# KOPPERS INDUSTRIES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19601`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0242
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $16K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KOPPERS INDUSTRIES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF SECTION   103 OF CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 9603, BY KOPPERS INDUSTRIES ( KOPPERS  OR  RESPONDENTS ) WAS ISSUED BY EPA REGION III    ON JUNE 25, 2001.  THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT AT 9:00AM ON   AUGUST 27, 1996, A RELEASE OF NAPTHALENE, WHICH IS A CERCLA  HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, GREATER THAN ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF 100 POUNDS, OCCURRED FROM KOPPERS FOLLANSBEE FACILITY,       FOLLANSBEE, WEST VIRGINIA.  IN ADDITION, THE COMPLAINT       ALLEGES THAT A 10:45 AM ON JANUARY 11, 1997, BETWEEN 200 AND 300 POUNDS OF O-TOLUIDINE WAS RELEASED AT THE FACILITY.  THE NRC WAS NOT INFORMED OF THE RELEASES UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 1   HOUR AND 20 MINUTES AND 48 HOURS RESPECTIVELY AFTER IT IS    ALLEGED THAT KOPPERS HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT A RELEASE            EXCEEDING THE RQ OCCURRED, IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 103 OF    CERCLA.  THE TOTAL PROPOSED PENALTY IS $31,250.00.

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