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CONGOLEUM CORP

Judicial · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 2419

$135K
Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
02-1987-0143
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
DOJ Docket
90-5-2-1-1101
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION CONCERNING VIOLATIONS OF THE CAA BY CONGOLEUM CORPORATION IN TRENTON, NJ. CONGOLEUM OPERATES A VINYL FLOOR COVERING MANUFACTURING PLANT. PART OF THE OPER- ATION IS ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING WHICH EMITS VOS IN VIOLATION OF THE NJ SIP. PROPOSED RELIEF SOUGHT: A) INJUNCTIVE RELIEF REQUIRING INSTALLATION OF EMISSION ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT ON THE ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING OPERATIONS; B) CIVIL PENALTIES: A PENALTY IN ACCORD WITH EPA PENALTY POLICIES HAS BEEN COMPUTED TO BE $43,000. SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL OR PRECEDENTIAL ISSUES: A) ATTENTION MUST BE PAID TO DEFINING ADEQUATELY THE COMP- PLIANCE DEMONSTRATION PROCEDURES. B) A BUBBLE ISSUE SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH AROSE IN A SIMILAR CASE INVOLVING A CONGOLEUM FACILITY IN PENNSYLVANIA, CIVIL ACTION NO. 86-0028, U.S. V. CONGOLEUM CORP., E.D. PA. A COMPLAINT WASFILED IN JANUARY OF 1986 AND LITIGATION IS CURRENTLY ONGOING IN THE PA. CASE. THE ISSUES WHICH MAY ARISE IN THIS REFERRAL, E.G. BUBBLES & COMPLIANCE DETERMINA- TION PROCEDURES, MAY COINCIDE WITH THE PA. CASE. HOWEVER, CONGOLEUM'S PLANS FOR COMPLIANCE AT THE N.J. FACILITY ARE SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED SO THAT REGION II IS ABLE TO PROPOSE A CONSENT DECREE AND PLANS TO DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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