# ASBESTOS REMOVAL INC. AND U.S. PAPER MILLS CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30742`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0070
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $20K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASBESTOS REMOVAL INC. AND U.S PAPER MILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ASBESTOS REMOVAL INC., REMOVED MATERIAL THAT WAS             INADEQUATELY WET.  DAY 150 IS AUGUST 4, 1997.                RESPONDENT, ASBESTOS REMOVAL ,INC., OWNS AND OPERATED AN     ASBESTOS ABATEMENT BUSINESS LOCATED IN GREEN BAY WISCONSIN.  ON MARCH 4, 1997, THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT BUSINESS LOCATED  IN GREEN BY WISCONSIN. ON MARCH 4, 1997, THE WISCONSIN       DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CONDUCTED A NESHAP IN-       SPECTION AT THE U.S. PAPER MILLS CORP., LOCATED AT 69        WASHINGTON STREET, MANASHA, WISCONSIN.  DURING THE INSPECT-  ION, MATERIAL BEING REMOVED AND MATERIAL WHICH HAD ALREADY   BEEN REMOVED WAS INADEQUATELY WET.  SAMPLES WERE TAKEN AND   HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED AS INQDEQUATELY WET FRIABLE ASBESTO     CONTAINING MATERIAL.BASED ON THIS INSPECTION, U.S. EPA       ISSUED A COMPLAINT ASSERTING THAT THE RESPONDENT VIOLATED    SECTION 112 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 U.S.C.  7412, AND       THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER SETTING FORTH         NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS     (NESHAPS)FOR ASBESTPS. 40 C.F.R. SUBPART M.  THE COMPLAINT   PROPOSED AN ADMINISTRATIVE CIVIL PENALTY OF $27, 500.  BASED ON RESPONDENT'S GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO SETTLE THIS MATTER AND  LITIGATION RISK, U.S. EPA MITIGATED THE PENALTY TO $20,000   FOR SETTLEMENT.                                              PENALTY PAID ON 8/25/98.

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