# ALUCHEM - AMERICAN REFRACTORY
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26917`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0218
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALUCHEM, INC. (complaint)
- AMERICAN REFRACTORY, INC. (complaint)
- ANGEL, LLOYD J. (complaint)
- WHITE, TONY (complaint)
## Summary

DATE VIOLATION DETERMINED: 03/15/88                          AMERICAN REFRACTORY, INC, AND ITS EMPLOYEES, LOCATED IN    CANFIELD, OHIO, AND ALUCHEM, INC., LOCATED IN READING, OHIO, VIOLATED SECTS 112 AND 114 OF THE CAA, 42 USC 7412, 7414,    AND FAILED TO COMPLY WITH 40 CFR SECTS 51.146, 61.147, AND   61.152.  THESE SECTS ARE PARTS OF THE ASBESTOS NESHAPS WHICH REQUIRE ADEQUATE PRIOR WRITTEN NOTICE AND PROPER WORK PRAC-  TICES FOR RENOVATIONS INVOLVING FRIABLE ASBESTOS MATERIAL.     THIS REFERRAL IS BASED ON INSPECTIONS CONDUCTED BY THE     SOUTHEASTERN DIST OFFICE (SEDO) OF THE OHIO EPA.  THE INSPEC TOR TOOK SAMPLES WHICH CONTAINED DRY ASBESTOS MATERIAL.  THE DEFENDANT HAD NOT NOTIFIED ANY AGENCY OF THE REMOVAL, NOR    WERE PROPER WORK PRACTICES USED.                               REGION V SEEKS A PERMANENT INJUNCTION AGAINST THE DEFEN-   DANTS AND A CIVIL PENALTY OF AT LEAST $25,000 PER DAY OF VIO LATION.  FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES, A BOTTOM LINE PENALTY OR   $42,400 IS RECOMMENDE.                                         NO FINDING OF VIOLATION HAS BEEN ISSUED, NOR WAS A SETTLE- MENT CONFERENCE HELD IN THIS MATTER. INSTEAD, REGION V HAS   ELECTED TO PROCEED DIRECTLY WITH THIS REFERRAL.

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