# ZOLL FOODS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31454`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0070
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $14K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ZOLL FOODS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON AUGUST 22, 1998, ZOLL FOODS CORPORATION HAD A RELEASE OF  1,100  POUNDS OF ANHYDROUA AMMONIA INTO THE ATMOSPHERE       THROUGH A PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE.  THE FACILITY REPORTED IT   TO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER ON AUGUST 25, 1998.  THREE   DAYS LATE AND 11 TIMES THE REPORTABLE QUANTITY.  THE         ILLINOIS EMERGENCY  MANAGEMENT AGENCY WILL BE PURSUING THE   EPCRA VIOLATIONS.                                            FAILURE TO NOTIFY THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER AS SOON AS    RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF A RELEASE OF A HAZARDOUS SUB-    STANCE (ANHYDROUS AMMONIA); AND CERCLA 109 ASSESSMENT OF     PENALTIES.                                                   ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION WAS USED IN THIS CASE TO      REACH AN EARLY SETTLEMENT.  ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1999, THE       AGENCY AND THE RESPONDENT REACHED A SETTLEMENT IN PRINCIPLE. ON JUNE 17, 1999, U.S. EPA FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST ZOLL FOODS CORPORATION (SUBSIDIARY OF CONAGRA, INC.) FOR FAILURE TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NATIONAL RESPONSE      CENTER OF THE AUGUST 22, 1998 ANHYDROUS AMMONIA RELEASE.     THE ILLINOIS STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION ALONG WITH  THE ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE WILL PURSUE THE EPCRA  VIOLATIONS.                                                  ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION WAS USED IN THIS CASE TO      REACH AN EARLY SETTLEMENT.  ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1999, THE       AGENCY AND THE RESPONDENT REACHED A SETTLEMENT IN PRIN-      CIPLE.

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