# LACKS INDUSTRIES
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25955`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0149
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $250K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LACKS INDUSTRIES, INC (complaint) (settlement)
- LACKS INDUSTRIES, INC. II (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FIVE LAGOONS AT FACILITY HAVE STORED HAZARDOUS WASTE SINCE 1976.  LACKS HAS CONTINUALLY DENIED APPLICABILITY OF RCRA TO THE LAGOONS, EVEN THOUGH REGS, GUIDANCE AND THEIR OWN ADMIS- SIONS DEMONSTRATE RCRA'S GOVERNANCE.                           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:  LACKS INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED,    5460 CASCADE ROAD, S.E., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 49506        (OFFICE) AND 6138 RIVERSIDE, SARANAC, MICHIGAN (FACILITY).     ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:  LACKS HAS OPERATED AND CONTINUES      TO OPERATE A HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE FACILITY WITHOUT OB-    TAINING INTERIM STATUS AND WITHOUT OBTAINING A RCRA PERMIT.  FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS, LACKS HAS REPEATEDLY DISREGARDED RE-   QUESTS AND ORDERS OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO     DISCONTINUE STORAGE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IN ITS ON-SITE SUR-   FACE IMPOUNDMENTS.                                             PROPOSED RELIEF:  A PERMANENT INJUNCTION WHICH WOULD PRO-  HIBIT LACKS FROM TREATING, STORING, OR DISPOSING OF ANY      WASTE AT ITS FACILITY AND WHICH WOULD REQUIRE LACKS TO CLOSE ITS ON-SITE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS.  IN ADDITION, THE AGENCY   RECOMMENDS THAT A CIVIL PENALTY BE SOUGHT AGAINST LACKS IN   THE AMOUNT OF UP TO $25,000 PER DAY, PURSUANT TO RCRA SEC-   TION 3008(G).                                                  RECENT CONTACTS WITH DEFENDANT:  U.S

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