# KENIC PET PRODUCTS, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20214`
- **Case Number:** 04-1984-0029
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KENIC PET PRODUCTS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:  ON 09/30/82, EPA, REGION IV ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATION COMPLAINT & NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING TO KENIC PET PRODUCTS, INC. ST. PETERSBURG, FL. ALLEGING VIO LATIONS OF FIFRA & PROPOSING A PENALTY OF $6,250.00. A       SETTLEMENT WAS REACHED ON 01/09/84, A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND  FINAL ORDER WAS SIGNED BY ALFRED P. NICOLOSI, CORPORATE DIR- ECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF KENIC PET PRODUCTS, INC., AND ON      01/17/84, THE SETTLEMENT WAS APPROVED BY THE DEPUTY REG ADM- INISTRATOR.  AS PART OF THE SETTLEMENT, KENIC AGREED TO PAY  $3,750.00 IN THREE MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS OF $1,250.00. THE    FIRST PAYMENT BECAME DUE 02/24/84, AND THE BALANCE WAS TO    BE PAID IN TWO THIRTY DAY INCREMENTS.  AS OF THIS DATE, KEN- IC PET PRODUCTS, INC., HAS FAILED TO PAY ANY PORTION OF THE  AGREED TO PENALTY, DESPITE TWO FORMAL REQUESTS FROM EPA FOR  PAYMENT AND TWO LETTERS (ONE FROM ANDRA TOD DREYFUSS, THE    ATTORNEY FOR KENIC, AND ONE FROM MR. NICOLOSI) PROMISING     PAYMENT.                                                       PROPOSED PENALTY:  REGION IV COMPROMISED THE PROPOSED PEN- ALTY BY 40% IN AN EFFORT TO REACH SETTLEMENT.  NO FURTHER    REDUCTION IS WARRANTED.  WE ARE SEEKING PAYMENT IN FULL OF   THE AGREED UPON PENALTY, $3,750.00, PLUS INTEREST AND COURT  COSTS.                                                         ISSUES OF NATIONAL OR PRESIDENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE:  THE IM-  PORTANCE OF PURSUING THIS ACTION IS TO ENSURE THAT THE RE-   GULATED COMMUNITY WILL TAKE SERIOUSLY 

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