# KURDZIEL IRON INDUSTRIES, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25954`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0148
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $82K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KURDZIEL IRON IND INC (complaint) (settlement)
- KURDZIEL IRON IND INC II (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROPOSED ACTION:  SECTION 3005 AND 3008 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT OF 1976, AS       AMENDED, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET. SEQ.                       IDENTITY OF DEFENDANT:  KURDZIEL IRON INDUSTRIES, INC.,    2625 WINSTON ROAD, ROTHBURY, MICHIGAN 49452.                   ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:  KURDZIEL HAS OPERATED AND CONTINUES   TO OPERATE A HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, AND DIS-    POSAL FACILITY WITHOUT OBTAINING INTERIM STATUS AND WITHOUT  OBTAINING A RCRA PERMIT.  KURDZIEL DID NOT ACHIEVE INTERIM   STATUS BECAUSE KURDZIEL DID NOT FILE A PART A PERMIT APPLI-  CATION BY NOVEMBER 19, 1980.  IN ADDITION, KURDZIEL FAILED   TO FILE A PART B PERMIT APPLICATION AND FAILED TO CERTIFY    BY NOVEMBER 9, 1985 THAT ITS FACILITY WAS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE GROUNDWATER MONITORING AND FINANCIAL RESPON-  SIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 3005(E)(2) OF   RCRA.                                                          PROPOSED RELIEF:  A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND A PERMANENT INJUNCTION WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT KURDZIEL FROM TREATING,      STORING, OR DISPOSING OF ANY WASTE AT ITS FACILITY AND WHICH WOULD REQUIRE KURDZIEL TO CLOSE ITS ON-SITE TREATMENT, STOR- AGE AND DISPOSAL UNITS.  IN ADDITION, THE AGENCY RECOMMENDS  THAT A CIVIL PENALTY BE ASSESSED AGAINST KURDZIEL IN THE     AMOUNT OF $25,000 PER DAY PURSUANT TO RCRA SECTION 3008(G).    RECENT CONTACTS WITH DEFENDANT:  ON NOVEMBER 1, 1985 THE   MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURC

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