# COUNTRY HOME BAKERY OF MICHIGAN
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29243`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0243
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $22K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COUNTRY HOME BAKERY OF MICHIGAN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE ARISES OUT OF A RELEASE OF AMMONIA FROM THE        BAKERY.  THEY DID NOT REPORT IT UNTIL SEVERAL HOURS AFTER    DISCOVERY OF THE RELEASE.  WE ALLEGE 900 LBS BASED ON THEIR  REPORT WHICH THEY NOW SAY MAY NOT BE ACCURATE.  THE          COMPLAINT ALLEGES 17 VIOLATIONS FROM FAILURE TO TIMELY       NOTIFY THE NRC, LERC, AND SERC AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO       FAILURE TO MAINTAIN MATERIAL DATA SHEETS.  ON AUGUST 9,      1993, AT 6:00 AM, COUNTRY HOME BAKERY OF MICHIGAN, INC.,     FACILITY LOCATED IN HIGHLAND PARK, MICHIGAN, DISCOVERED A    RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY 900 POUNDS OF ANHYDROUS AMMONIA     INTO THE ATMOSPHERE FROM A COMPRESSOR RELIEF VALVE THAT      FAILED TO RESEAT.  COUNTRY HOME BAKERY OF MICHIGAN, INC.,    NOTIFIED THE NRC, ON AUGUST 9, 1992, AT 2:18 PM, OR EIGHT    HOURS AND 18 MINUTES AFTER THE FACILITY HAD KNOWLEDGE THE    RELEASE.  COUNTRY HOME BAKERY OF MICHIGAN, INC., NEVER       NOTIFIED THE SERC OR THE LEPC OF THE RELEASE.  THE FACILITY  HAS NEVER PROVIDED WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION  TO THE SERC OR LEPC.  ANHYDROUS AMMONIA HAS A CERCLA RQ OF   100 POUNDS.  THE AMOUNT OF ANHYDROUS AMMONIA RELEASED WAS    APPROXIMATELY NINE TIMES THE CERCLA RQ.

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