# FMC CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20722`
- **Case Number:** 04-1991-0047
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FMC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- MARSHALL PRICKETT GENERAL CONTRACTOR INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FMC CORPORATION RETAINED MARSHALL PRICKETT GENERAL CONTRAC-  TOR, INC. (MARSHALL PRICKETT) TO REMOVE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING  FLOOR TILE FROM A BUILDING LOCATED AT FMC'S STEEL PRODUCT    DIVISION FACILITY IN ANNISTON, CALHOUN COUNTY, ALABAMA. FROM JANUARY 2-4, 1991, MARSHALL PRICKETT REMOVED APPROXIMATELY   TEN THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIAL     (AMC) FROM FMC'S TWO STORY STRUCTURE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE  MECHANICSVILLE SCHOOL.  PRIOR TO THE RENOVATION PROJECT AS REQUIRED BY REGULATION, MARSHALL PRICKETT NOTIFIED THE    ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (ADEM) OF THE PLANNED ASBESTOS ABATEMENT PROJECT. HOWEVER, THIS NOTIFICA-  TION DID NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE INFORMATION REQUIRED UNDER   APPLICABLE REGULATIONS.                                      ON JANUARY 4, 1991, WHICH WAS THE THIRD AND FINAL DAY OF THE DEFENDANTS, FLOOR TILE REMOVAL PROJECT, ADEM COMPLIANCE IN-  SPECTOR, PARTHA P. GHOSH, CONDUCTED AN UNANNOUNCED INSPEC-   TION OF THE FMC FACILITY. DURING HIS INSPECTION, HE NOTED    SEVERAL VIOLATIONS OF ASBESTOS REMOVAL WORK STANDARDS WHICH  ARE CONTAINED IN APPLICABLE FEDERAL REGULATIONS. ADEM THERE- AFTER NOTIFIED REGION IV OF THE CASE AND INDICATED THE       STATES RELUCTANCE AND/OR INABILITY TO PURSUE FURTHER ENFORCE MENT ACTIONS.                                                REGION IV HAS DETERMINED THAT FMC AND MARSHALL PRICKETT VIO- LATED THE NESHAP FOR ASBESTOS, WHICH ARE CODIFIED AT 40 CFR  PART 61, SUBPART M. IN PARTICULAR, R

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