# ARMCO, INC. (FORMERLY EMPIRE-DETROIT STEEL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31178`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0595
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARMCO, INC. (FORMERLY EMPIRE-DETROIT (settlement)
## Summary

ARMCO'S MANSFIELD, OHIO FACILITY IS A SECONDARY STEEL PLANT  THAT PRODUCES STEEL IN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACES FROM SCRAP      STEEL AND METAL ALLOY ADDITIONS.  THE FACILITY HAS BEEN USED TO MANUFACTURE STEEL SINCE THE EARLY PART OF THIS CENTURY.   EPA REGION 5 HAS INFORMATION THAT HAZARDOUS WASTES AS DE-    FINED IN RCRA SECTION 1004(5) ARE PRESENT AT THE FACILITY    IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOLLOWING UNITS: THE LOCATION OF AN   OLD COKE PILE; A PROCESSING AREA FOR SLAG GENERATED BY THE   FACILITY'S ELECTRIC ARC FURNACES; AN OLD LANDFILL )CLOSED    1979) IN WHICH ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE DUST WAS LANDFILLED FOR  MANY YEARS; THE RAVINE BETWEEN THE SLAG PROCESSING AREA AND  THE LANDFILL; A SPENT PICKLY LIQUOR RECOVERY AREA; AND A     DEEP INJECTION WELL IN WHICH 11 MILLION GALLONS OF SPENT     PICKLE LIQUOR WERE DISPOSED BETWEEN 1968 AND 1971.           EPA HAS DETERMINED THAT THE PRESENCE OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AT  THE FACILITY MAY PRESENT A SUBSTANTIAL HAZARD TO HUMAN       HEALTH OR THE ENVIRONMENT.                                   THE ORDER REQUIRES ARMCO (1) TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE SOIL     AND SEDIMENT SAMPLES TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF   CONTAMINATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNITS DESCRIBED ABOVE;  (2) TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF CONTAMINATED       LEACHATE DISCHARGED TO ROCKY FORK CREEK IN CONNECTION WITH   THESE UNITS; (3) TO CHARACTERIZE THE HYDROGEOLOGY UNDER THE  FACILITY; AND (4) TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF      CONTAMINATION IN THE GROUNDWATER AT 

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