# POLLUTION CONTROL INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27947`
- **Case Number:** 05-1992-0067
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $37K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- POLLUTION CONTROL INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

PCIA WAS INSPECTED BY U.S. EPA ON SEPT. 28, 1987. U.S. EPA   FOUND A TANKER TRUCK WITH ABOUT 5850 GALLONS OF PCB'S AT     CONCENTRATIONS GREATER THAN 500 PPM, A BULK STORAGE TANK     WITH ABOUT 10,000 GALLONS OF PCB'S AT CONCENTRATIONS GREATER THAN 50PPM. PCIA SHIPPED ABOUT 5400 GALLONS OF WASTE OIL     WHICH CONTAINED PCB'S AT CONCENTRATIONS GREATER THAN 50 PPM. PCIA SHIPPED ABOUT 5400 GALLONS OF WASTE OIL WHICH CONTAINED PCB'S AT A CONCENTRATION OF 2558 PPM ON OR ABOUT JULY 28,    1987 TO MWL. PCIA ALSO SHIPPED ABOUT 5850 GALLONS OF WASTE   OIL WHICH CONTAINED PCB'S AT A CONCENTRATION OF 41,000 PPM   TO LONE STAR. PCIA FAILED TO MARK THE BULK STORAGE TANK      MENTIONED ABOVE. PCIA FAILED TO DATE THE STORAGE TANK WITH   THE DATES THAT BATCHES WERE ADDED TO IT AND THE QUANTITY OF  THE BATCHES. THE PROPOSED PENALTY IS $70,000.                THE PRESIDENT OF PCIA HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO CRIMINAL COUNTS  FOR LYING TO THE GOVERNMENT. HE ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF        VIOLATIONS IN REGION VIII.

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