# BEALIEU FIBERS AND FABRICS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2009 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200000059`
- **Case Number:** 04-2009-2908
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BEALIEU FIBERS AND FABRICS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

7/27/10 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $47,745, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS. 

RESPONDENT'S FACILITY IS A USER OF PCB ITEMS OPERATING IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA.  ON OR ABOUT DEC 16, 2008, AN INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED BY ADEM AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS PROMULGATED UNDER SECTION 6(e) OF TSCA PERTAINING TO PCBs.

DURING THE INSPECTION, ADEM OBSERVED THAT RESPONDENT HAD TWO LARGE ALLIS CHALMERS TRANSFORMERS IN SERVICE, EACH CONTAINING 500 GALLONS OF DIELECTRIC FLUID.  BOTH TRANSFORMERS CONTAINED PCBs IN CONCENTRATION EXCEEDING 500 PPM THEREBY CLASSIFYING THEM AS PCB TRANSFORMERS. ANALYTICAL RESULTS OF SAMPLES COLLECTED BY RESPONDENT BY RESPONDENT FROM THE TWO TRANSFORMERS SHOWED AS FOLLOWS:

A. ALLIS CHALMERS TRANSFORMER, SERIAL NUMBER 5017302, LOCATED AT SUBSTATION #1, CONTAINED PCBs AT A CONCENTRATION OF 22,632 PPM.

B. ALLIS CHALMERS TRANSFORMER, SERIAL NUMBER 5017303, LOCATED AT SUBSTATION #2, CONTAINED PCBs AT A CONCENTRATION OF 25,414 PPM.

EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT FAILED TO REGISTER THE TWO PCB TRANSFORMERS IDENTIFIED ABOVE WITH EPA AS REQUIRED BY 40 CFR 761,30(a)(1)(vi)(A). THEREFORE, EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED SECTION 15 OF TSCA.

PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 761.40(a)(2), OWNERS OF PCB TRANSFORMERS SHALL ENSURE THAT ALL PCB TRANSFORMERS ARE MARKED WITH THE ML MARKING AS DESCRIBED IN 40 CFR 761.45(a). THE TWO TRANSFORMERS DID NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED PCB ML MARKINGS. THEREFORE, EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPOND

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