# NEASE CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28826`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0171
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
## Summary

NEASE CHEMICAL HAS AN EXISTING LEACHATE COLLECTION       TREATMENT SYSTEM (LCTS) THAT HAD NOT BEEN FUNCTIONING        PROPERLY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. THE AGENCY HAD PREVIOUSLY    ATTEMPTED TO GET NEASE TO VOLUNTARILY FIX AND IMPROVE ITS    LCTS.   NEASE DID NOT DO THIS.  IN EARLY 1993, IT WAS        DETERMINED THAT NEASE'S LEACHATE / SURFACE WATER             CONTAMINATION PROBLEM NECESSITATED AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL      ACTION.  THE AGENCY SENT OUT NOTICE LETTERS IN EARLY 1994    AND NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SETTLEMENT COMMENCED SHORTLY          THEREAFTER.  AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER BY CONSENT FOR AN       EMERGENCY REMOVAL ACTION AT NEASE CHEMICAL WAS SUCCESSFULLY  NEGOTITATED WITH NEASE.  THE AOC WAS SIGNED BY US EPA FOR    NOVEMBER 11, 1993, WHICH IS THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDER.

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