# PRECISION CHROME, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31585`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0235
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $871K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PRECISION CHROME, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE SITE WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY A MAN RUMMING THIS OWN    BUSINESS WHO ACCEPTED SPENT PLATING WASTE (CHROMIC ACID)     FROM PRECISION CHROME, INC., LOCATED IN FOX LAKE, IL, IN     ORDER TO PRODUCE CLEANING AGENTS.  OPERATINGS BEGAIN IN      APPROXIMATELY 1987 AND CEASED IN APPROXIMATELY 1993.  THE    BUILDING WAS THEN ABANDONED WITH THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES    INSIDE.                                                        THERE WERE 4 PRPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE AT THE TIME OF  THE REMOVAL ACTION.  UNDER AN AOC DATED 8/29/95, PRECISION   CHROME, INC. AGREED TO DISPOSE OF ITS WASTES LEFT AT THE     SITE, AND AGREED TO REIMBURSE U.S. EPA ITS OVERSIGHT COSTS.  PRECISION CHROME COULD NOT AFFORD TO PERFORM THE ENTIRE      REMOVAL ACTION, AND THIS FACT WAS VERIFIED BY A U.S. EPA     REVIEW OF PRECISION CHROME'S SUBMITTED FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS.  AFTER THE REMOVAL OF ITS WASTE, PRECISION CHROME REIMBURSED  U.S. EPA $40,025.07 IN OVERSIGHT COSTS, AND $342.58 IN       INTEREST THAT THAD ACCRUED.  U.S. EPA FUNDED THE REMAINDER   OF THE REMOVAL ACTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,346,154.99 BECAUSE THE REMAINING PRPS WERE NOT FINANCIALLY VIABLE.                TWO ADDITIONAL PRPS WERE INCLUDED IN A DEMAND LETTER       ISSUED AT THE SAME TIME AS A DEMAND LETTER TO PRECISION      CHROME, INC.  AT THAT TIME, PRECISION CHROME, INC. NEGOTIATE D A FINAL SETTLEMENT WITH THE AGENCY FOR $95,000.00 A SECOND ABILITY TO PAY ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED TO VERIFY PRECISION'S  CLAIM THAT IT COULD NOT REIMBURSE U.

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