# MIDWEST METALLICS, SUMMIT, IL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31281`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0712
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MIDWEST METALLICS, SUMMIT, IL (settlement)
## Summary

IN THE PROCESS OF RECOVERING FERROUS AND NON-FERROUS METALS  FROM SCRAP AUTOMOBILES AND APPLIANCES, MIDEWST METALLICS     GENERATED SIGNIFICANT QUANTITIES OF AUTO SHREDDER RESIDUE OR  AUTO FLUFF .  SINCE THE MID-1980, MIDWEST METALLICS HAS     STORED THAT FLUFF IN A LARGE PILE AT ITS FACILITY.  TESTED   PORTIONS OF THIS WASTE EXHIBIT THE CHARACTERISTIC OF         TOXICITY BECAUSE OF ITS LEAD CONTENT PURSUANT TO 40 C.F.R.   261.24.                                                      3013 AUTHORITY IS BEING USED TO ATTEMPT TO FORCE THE COM-    PANY TO COME UP WITH A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING PLAN TO       DETERMINE IF THE ENTIRE PILE IS HAZARDOUS PURSUANT TO RCRA,  WHICH WILL ASSIST IN PLANNING FOR THE MATERIAL'S DISPOSAL.   COMPANY HAS SHUT DOWN OPERATIONS AT THE SITE, SELLING THE    AUTO SHREDDING EQUIPMENT AND THE EDDY CURRENT SEPARATOR      (USED TO PROCESS NONFERROUS METAL) TO ANOTHER SCRAP          PROCESSING COMPANY.

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