# ALLEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28961`
- **Case Number:** 05-1994-0349
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $8K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

A RELEASE OF ANHYDROUS AMMONIA OCCURRD AT THE SUBJECT    FACILITY ON MAY 27, 1993 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:00PM.            RESPONDENT FAILED TO TIMELY AND PROPERLY NOTIFY THE NRC,     SERC OR PROVIDE WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP OF THERELEASE.  U.S. EPA   FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT ON APRIL 12, 1994WHICH     PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY IN THE AMOUNT OF $82,500 FOR 5      COUNTS.RESPONDENT REQUESTED AND HAD AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT   CONFERENCE WITH EPAREGIONAL STAFF AND PRODUCED INFORMATION   SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT DROPPINGTHE THIRD COUNT IN THE         COMPLAINT, RESPONDENT DEMONSTRATED THAT IT HADNOTIFIED THE   LEPC AT THE TIME OF THE RELEASE, AND THUS EPA REGIONALSTAFF  AGREED TO AMEND THE COMPLAINT TO DROP THE THIRD COUNT        RELATING TOTHE ALLEGED FAILURE TO NOTIFY THE LEPC.  U.S. EPA  AND RESPONDENTCONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE IN THE HOPES OF         SETTLING U.S. EPA'S CLAIMS.                                  FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH EPCRA 312.

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