# PIONEER ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27545`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0265
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PIONEER ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT WAS A SUB-CONTRACTOR DURING AN AUGUST 1989        ASBESTOS ABATEMENT PROJET AT THE CARDINGTON ELEMENTARY       SCHOOL IN CARDINGTON, OH.  THE COMPLAINT ISSUED 8/3/90,      ALLEGED THAT RESPONDENT FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE            REQUIREMENTS OF 15 USC SECTIONS 2614 AND 2643, AND 40 CFR    SECTION 763.90(I), BY SPLITTING THE ASBESTOS PROJECT AREA    INTO SMALL CONTIGUOUS AREA.  THE COMPLAINT PROPOSED A        PENALTY IF $25,000.  RESPONDENT CERTIFIED THAT ITS CURRENT   ABATEMENT WORK IS CONDUCTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH AHERA, THAT   NO CONTAMINATION OF THE ABATEMENT SITE WAS SHOWN BY AIR      TESTING, AN THAT IT RECEIVED NO ECONOMIC BENEFIT DUE TO THE  FACT THAT IT HAD TO PERFORM ADDDITIONAL TESTING DUE TO THE   SEPARATION.  USEPA RECOGNIZED THAT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE    VIOLATION WAS SHARED BY THE CONTRACTOR, ASBESTOS REAL ESTATE CONSULTANTS, INC, WHICH WAS SUBJECT TO, AND SETTLED, A       SEPARATE ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION RELATING TO THE SAME IMPROPER SEPARATION.

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