# AMERICAN COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31593`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0246
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN COMMERCIAL VEHICLES (settlement)
- MK ACQUISITION (settlement)
## Summary

THE FACILITY HAD A 6000 GALLON TANK WHICH HAD RELEASES FROM  OVERFILLING, INADEQUATE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT, AND THE TANKS ROOF WAS COLLAPSED INWARD.  LQG TO TSD.                        ECAB CONDUCTED A RCRA COMPLIANCE EVALUATION INSPECTION (CE I) ON DECEMBER 11, 1998.  ECAB EXTENDED AN INVITATION TO     PARTICIPATE TO OHIO EPA WHO DECLINED.  ACV'S OFFICE IS LOCA- TED ON A CONTIGENT PROPERTY THAT IS SEPARATED BY A PUBLIC    ACCESS STREET.  THIS REQUIRES ACV TO SUBMIT TWO NOTIFICATION S OF HAZARDOUS WASTE ACTIVITIES FOR ITS OPERATIONS.  PLANT # 1 HAD BEEN ASSIGNED EPA ID #OHD 000 716 951.  PLANT #1 WAS   INSPECTED ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 11TH AND FOUND TO BE    GENERATING HAZARDOUS WASTE AS A SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR.    PLANT #1 WAS DEDICATED TO METAL STAMPING AND THE MANUFACTUR- ING OF  OVER THE ROAD  TRUCK CABS AND MANAGED ITS HAZARDOUS  WASGE IN CONTAINTERS.  WASTE GENERATED AT PLANT #1 WERE      ACCUMULATED ON-SITE AND MOVED TO PLANT #2.  THE FINDINGS OF  THIS INSPECTION WERE NOT PART OF THIS FORMAL ENFORCEMENT     ACTION.                                                      ECAB CONDUCTED THE INSPECTION ON PLANT #2 IN THE AFTERNOON   OF DECEMBER 11TH.  PLANT #2 WAS DEDICATED TO THE PREPARATION AND PAINTING OF TRUCKS.  AFTER CLEANING THE FABRICATED METAL A BLACK E-COAT WAS APPLIED BY DIPPING THE CAB IN A TANK.     WASTE FROM THE E-COAT PROCESS WAS COLLECTED AS A NON-HAZAR-  DOUS SLUDGE.  ACV FOLLOWED THIS STEP BY APPLYING GREY WATER  BASED PAINT FOR PRIMER IN A BOOTH.  

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