# TRC CIRCUITS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31598`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0251
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $16K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TRC CIRCUITS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VIOLATION OF EPCRA SECTION 312(A) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR A HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL.  THE RESPONDENT FAILED TO TIMELY       REPORT FOR HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL (SULPHURIC ACID) TO THE STATE  EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION (SERC) AND THE LOCAL FIRE      DEPARTMENT.  RESPONDENT SUBMITTED A COMPLETED EMERGENCY AND  HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL INVENTORY FORM FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1955 TO  SERC AND THE LOCAL LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT ON SEPTEMBER 9,     1996.  THIS WAS 192 DAYS AFTER REQUIRED TO DO SO, AND 19     DAYS AFTER U.S. EPA CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION AT THE RESPOND-  ENTS'S FACILITY.                                             ON APRIL 27, 1999, U.S. EPA FILED A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND    FINAL ORDER TO RESOLVE A COMPLAINT ISSUED AGAINST TRC        CIRCUITS, A CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURER IN CRYSTAL, MINNE-    SOTA.  ON DECEMBER 14, 1998, U.S. EPA ISSUED AN ADMINI-      STRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST THIS FACILITY ASSESSING $31,046   IN PENALTIES, FOR FAILING TO SUMBIT EPCRA SECTION 312 TIER   II FORMS TO THE MINNESOTA EMERGENVY RESPONSE COMMISSION,     AND THE CRYSTAL FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE 1995 CALENDAR YEAR.  THE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED AFTER AN INSPECTION AT THE FACILITY IN AUGUST OF 1966, REVEALED THE STORAGE OF SULFURIC ACID IN  A QUANTITY GREATER THAN THE REPORTING THRESHOLD.  TO RESOLVE THIS MATTER TRC CIRCUITS HAS AGREED TO PAY A CIVIL PENALTY   OF $15,718 IN 4 INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS OVER THE NEXT 9 MONTHS.

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