# AMERICAN CONVERTERS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27346`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0061
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CONVERTERS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT COMPANY WAS INSPECTED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE ITS   COMPLIANCE WITH THE EPCRA REGULATIONS, 42 U.S.C. SECTION     11011 AND TO DOCUMENT THE FACILITY'S REPORTING PRACTICES.    THE COMPANY USES ONLY ONE SECTION 313 TOXIC CHEMICAL OR      CHEMICAL COMPOUND IN SIGNIFICANT QUANTITY, THAT BEING 1,1,1- TRICHLOROETHANE (METHYL CHLOROPHORM), CAS NO. 71-55-6.  THE  INSPECTION REVEALED THAT THE SUBJECT FACILITY USED APPROXI-  MATELY 11,292 POUNDS OF 1,1,1-TRICHLOROETHANE DURING CALEND- AR YEAR 1987 AND THEREFORE SHOULD HAVE FILED A COMPLETED     TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE FORM R WITH THE PROPER AUTHORITIES    BEFORE JULY 1, 1988.  AS NO REPORT HAD BEEN FILED FOR THAT   PERIOD, A PENALTY WAS PROPOSED IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,000.

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