# MEDUSA CEMENT COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28375`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0798
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MEDUSA CEMENT COPANY (complaint)
## Summary

IN JUNE OF 1991, A RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 20,000 GALLONS   OF NUMBER 2 FUEL OIL OCCURRED AT MEDUSA'S CHARLEVOIX         FACILITY. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE U.S. EPA REGION 5 OFFICE OF      CHEMICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AMD PREVENTION ( OCEPP )     CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF THE    FACILITY'S COMPLIANCE WITH EPCRA.  BASED ON ITS FINDINGS     DURING THE COURSE OF ITS INVESTIGATION, OCEPP ALLEGES THAT   MEDUSA STORED AND/OR USED THREE  HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS  (I.E., NUMBER 2 FUEL OIL, NUMBER 6 FUEL OIL AND DIETHYLENE GLYCOL)  AS DEFINED BY SECTION 329(5) OF EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. 11049(5),   IN QUANTITIES EXCEEDING THEIR TPQS OF 10,000 POUNDS, BUT     THAT MEDUSA FAILED TO SUBMIT TO THE SERC MATERIAL SAFETY     DATA SHEETS AND HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL INVENTORY FORMS FOR THE   HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS AS REQUIRED, RESPECTIVELY, BY SECTIONS   311 & 312 OF EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. 11021-11022.                   ON MAY 10, 1993, U.S. EPA FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT  (IN THE MATTER OF MEDUSA CEMENT COMPANY, EPCRA-023-93)       AGAINST THE MEDUSA CEMENT COMPANY ( MEDUSA ), CHARLEVOIX,    MICHIGAN, ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 311 AND 312 OF THE  EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT           ( EPCRA ), 42 U.S.C. 11021-11022.  PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF SECTION 325 OF EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. 11045, THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT SEEKS A TOTAL PENALTY AMOUNT OF $155,000 FOR       MEDUSA'S ALLEGED FAILURE TO SUBMIT TO THE MICHIGAN STATE     EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION ( THE 

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