# COPPERWELD STEEL CO
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25961`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0155
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $110K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COPPERWELD STEEL CO (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:  COPPERWELD STEEL COMPANY, 400      MAHONING AVENUE, WARREN TOWNSHIP, WARREN, OHIO 44482.          ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:  COPPERWELD HAS OPERATED AND CONTINUES TO OPERATED TWO DISTINCT HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE FACILITIES, SPECIFICALLY A WASTE PILE AND A SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT,         WITHOUT OBTAINING A RCRA PERMIT AND WITHOUT ACHIEVING        INTERIM STATUS FOR EITHER UNIT.  IN ADDITION, COPPERWELD     HAS VIOLATED SEVERAL REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO ITS INTERIM   STATUS LANDFILL AND DRUM STORAGE FACILITY.                     PROPOSED RELIEF:  A PERMANENT INJUNCTION WHICH WOULD PRO-  HIBIT COPPERWELD FROM STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE IN AN UNPER-   MITTED WASTE PILE AND REQUIRE CLOSURE OF THE WASTE PILE, AND WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT COPPERWELD FROM STORING WASTE IN AN UN- PERMITTED SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT AND REQUIRE CLOSURE OF ITS ON- SITE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT.  PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEFF IS   REQUESTED TO COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS APPLICABLE   TO COPPERWELD'S INTERIM STATUS LANDFILL AND DRUM STORAGE FA- CILITY.  IN ADDITION, THE AGENCY RECOMMENDS THAT A CIVIL PE- NALTY BE ASSESSED AGAINST COPPERWELD IN THE AMOUNT UP TO $25 000 PER DAY PURSUANT TO RCRA SECTION 3008G.                    RECENT CONTACTS WITH DEFENDANT:  INSPECTORS FROM OHIO EPA  HAVE CONDUCTED INSPECTIONS OF COPPERWE

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