# TRINITY AMERICAN CORPORATION > **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication ## Case - **Activity ID:** `22441` - **Case Number:** 04-1998-0059 - **Type:** Administrative - Formal - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication - **Penalty assessed:** — - **Cost recovery:** — - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** N ## Defendants - TRINITY AMERICAN CORP. (complaint) (settlement) ## Summary ORDER: TRINITY SHALL NOT ENGAGE IN ANY MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AT THE FOAM PLANT AND THE FIBER PLANT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS EPA DETERMINES THAT THOSE OPERATIONS WILL NOT PRESENT AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. EPA ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF A COPY OF TRINITY'S 9/29/97, PROPOSAL TO THE STATE HEALTH DIRECTION FOR EMISSIONS TESTING AND OPERATION OF THE FIBER PLANT. THIS PROPOSAL IS INADEQUATE TO ENSURE THAT MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AT THE FIBER PLANT WILL NOT PRESENT AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. IF TRINITY INTENDS TO RESUME OPERATION OF EITHER THE FOAM PLANT OR FIBER PLANT, TRINITY SHALL SUBMIT TO EPA A WRITTEN PROPOSAL WITHIN 30DAYS FROM THE ISSUANCE OF THIS ORDER, FOR ENSURING OPERATION OF THE FOAM AND/OR FIBER PLANTS IN A MANNER SUCH THAT SAID OPERATION DOES NOT PRESENT AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT OT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE. ANY SUCH PROPOSAL SHALL INCLUDE ADEQUATE MEANSURES TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF RESIDENTS LIVING NEAR THE FOAM AND FIBER PLANTS. ANY SUCH PROPOSAL SHALL BE APPROVED BY EPA PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION. WITHIN 7 DAYS FROM THE EFFECTIVE DATE TRINITY SHALL NOTIFY EPA IN WRITING WHETHER TRINITY INTENDS TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THIS ORDER. --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*