# AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN CO.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29752`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0304
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $39K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $45K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN NATIONAL CAN CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- S.A. DE C.V., TEXAM INTERNATIONAL, INC.
- ZAPATA ENVASES S.A. DE C.V. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN THE PROCESS OF DISMANTLING OVENS LOCATED AT THE AMERICAN  NATIONAL CAN (ANC) HAMMOND FACILITY WHICH ZAPATA HAD         PURCHASED FROM ANC, ZAPATA IMPROPERLY REMOVED ASBESTOS.  THE ASBESTOS WAS NOT WET AND KEPT WET UNTIL COLLECTED FOR        DISPOSAL, WAS NOT PROPERLY DISPOSED OF AS SOON AS PRACTICAL, AND ZAPATA AND ANC FAILED TO PROVIDE THE REQUIRED NOTICE.

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