# MICHIGAN WASTE SYSTEMS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28452`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-1049
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $19K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MICHIGAN WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ACTION WAS FILED AFTER RESPONDENT (A SUBSIDIARY OF      WASTE MANAGEMENT INC.) FAILED TO INSTALL AN ADEQUATE         GROUNDWATER MONITORING SYSTEM, AND TO DESIGN OR CONDUCT AN   ADEQUATE GROUNDWATER ASSESSMENT PLAN UPON DISCOVERY OF       POTENTIAL GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION AT THE FACILITY.  A 4    DAY HEARING, COMMENCING ON DECEMBER 14, 1986, WAS HELD IN    CHICAGO. THE CASE WAS BRIEFED AND READY FOR DECISION BY JUNE 1987.  THE ALJ DID NOT ISSUE A DECISION UNTIL SEPTEMBER      1991.  ON OCTOBER 22, 1991, EPA FILED AN APPEAL OF THE       INITIAL DECISION.  RESPONDENT THEN FILED A MOTION, TO REOPEN THE DECISION TO INTRODUCE ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OBTAINED IN    THE ALMOST 5 INTERVENING YEARS SINCE THE HEARING.   ON       DECEMBER 24, 1991 THE JUDGE GREENE GRANTED RESPONDENT'S      MOTION, AND THE CHIEF JUDICIAL OFFICER (NOW THE              ENVIRONMENTAL APPEALS BOARD) STAYED THE APPEAL ON JANUARY    16, 1992.                                                    ALSO SEE MATTER NO. 05-85-0441

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