# CONGOLEUM CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2419`
- **Case Number:** 02-1987-0143
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $135K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CONGOLEUM CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## 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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