# QUALITY SPECIALTY PRODUCTS CORP.
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31203`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0623
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- QUALITY SPECIALTY PRODUCTS CORP. (complaint)
## Summary

REGION 5 OF THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION       AGENCY (U.S. EPA ) IS RECOMMENDING THAT THE U.S. DEPARTMENT  OF JUSTICE FILE A COMPLAINT AGAINST QUALITY SPECIALTY PRO-   DUCTS CORPORATION ( QSP ) FOR FAILURE TO PAY A CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED PURSUANT TO A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER     ( CAFO ).                                                      THE COMPLAINT SEEKS TO COLLECT A DEBT OF %5,000, PLUS      INTEREST, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND PENALTY CHARGES, AS WELL AS    COSTS, OWED TO THE UNITED STATES AND ARISING FROM THE        COMPANY'S TOTAL DISREGARD OF THE OBLIGATION TO PAY A CIVIL   PENALTY PURSUANT TO A CAFO.  SPECIFICALLY, THE U.S. EPA      ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST QSP ALLEGING THAT IT VIOLATED SECTION 7(C)1, 7 U.S.C.  136E(C)(1), AND 40     C.F.R.  167.85, OF THE FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND  RODENTICIDE ACT ( FIFRA ).  THE COMPLAINT PROPOSED A CIVIL   PENALTY OF $5,000.  ON JULY 14, 1997, THE ACTING REGIONAL    ADMINISTRATOR FOR U.S. EPA ISSUED A CAFO ASSESSING A CIVIL   PENALTY OF $3,600 AGAINST QSP.  THE CAFO BECAME EFFECTIVE    WHEN IT WAS FILED WITH THE REGIONAL HEARING CLERK ON JULY    16, 1997.  DUE TO QSP'S FAILURE TO MAKE TIMELY PAYMENTS OF   THE ENTIRE ADJUSTED  PROPOSED PENALTY OF $5,000 FOR VIOLA-   TING THE CAFO.  ADDITIONALLY, THIS DEMAND LETTER INFORMED    QSP THAT IT WAS LIABLE FOR THE $192.29 IN INTEREST, $195     IN ADMININSTRATIVE CHARGES, AND $213.01 IN PENALTY CHARGES   THAT HAD ACCRUED ON THE ORIGINAL $3,

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