# GORDON HEAD & WILLIAM SPANGLER/H&H ENTERPRISES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30143`
- **Case Number:** 05-1997-0160
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GORDON HEAD (complaint) (settlement)
- WILLIAM SPANGLER (complaint)
## Summary

RESPONDENTS ACCEPTED AND STORED LARGE AMOUNTS OF AUTO-       MOBILE  FLUFF , THE NON-METALLIC REMNANTS OF SHREDDED        AUTOMOBILES, AT A FACILITY OPERATING ILLEGALLY AS A DUMP SIT E IN GARY, IN.  THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED IMPROPER STORAGE,      DISPOSAL, MARKING AND NOTIFICATION VIOLATIONS OF THE PCB     REGS.  IN ADDITION, THE STATE OF INDIANA BROUGHT CHARGES     AGAINST THEM IN THE AFTERMATH OF A FIRE AT THE FACILITY,     AND IT WAS CLEANED UP AS A SUPERFUND SITE.  SPANGLER HAS     SINCE DIED.  RESPONDENTS SUBMITTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION     THAT INDICATED THAT THEY HAD EXHAUSTED THEIR ASSETS DEALING  WITH THE STATE ACTIONS (INCLUDING A CRIMINAL CONVICTION      OF HEAD) AND THE EPA CLEANUP, SO THAT NEITHER RESPONDENT     WERE ABLE TO PAY ANY CIVIL PENALTY.  ACCORDINGLY, THE        PROPOSED PENALTY WAS MITIGATED TO $0 FOR EACH.  THE CACOS    PROVIDE THAT EPA MAY IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY IF EITHER        RESPONDENT POSSESS, DISCOVER OR RECEIVE ASSETS; THE          CACOS ALSO PROHIBIT THE HANDLING OF AUTO FLUFF.

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