# CENTURY 21 PAINT, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33162`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0530
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $424K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CENTURY 21 PAINT, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

THIS WAS AN EMERGENCY REMOVAL AT THE  CENTURY 21 PAINT, INC. SITE PERFORMED BY THE SUPERFUND EMERGENCY RESPONSE BRANCH.     THE SITE IS A PAST TIME WHOLESALE AND RECYCLING FACILITY   LOCATED ON APPROXIMATELY THREE ACRES.  THE SITE WAS ACTIVE   AT THE TIME OF THE RESPONSE.  ON AUGUST 9, 1998, A LARGE     FIRE OCCURRED AT THE SITE.  THERE WERE MANY AUTHORITIES WHO  RESPONDED TO THE FIRE.  THERE WERE NINE FIRE DEPARTMENTS,    FOUR AMBULANCES, AND SEVERAL POLICE AUTHORITIES INCLUDING    THE OHIO STATE HIGHWAY PATROL.  THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL PRO-  TECTION AGENCY REQUESTED THE U.S. EPA'S ASSISTANCE BECAUSE   OF THE SMOLDERING POCKETS OF PAINT DEBRIS AND THE RESULTING  RUNOFF LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED.  SUBSE-  QUENTLY, U.S. EPA CONDUCTED ANALYSES OF THE THREAT TO THE    NEARBY BEARS DEN RUN, A TRIBUTARY TO THE MAHONING RIVER      WHICH EMPTIES INTO THE OHIO RIVER AND FOUND MERIT FOR AN     EMERGENCY REMOVAL.                                             THE SETTLING PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL PAY THE EPA      HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND $120,000 IN REIMBURSEMENT OF   PAST COSTS WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS      AGREEMENT.  THE BALANCE OF THE RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED BY    U.S. EPA WILL BE CLOSED-OUT.  A COST RECOVERY CLOSE-OUT (OF  REMOVAL ACTION COSTS) MEMORANDUM REFLECTING A BALANCE OF     $306,184.09 CALCULATED AS OF MAY 7, 2001 WILL BECOME PART OF THE ENFORCEMENT FILE AFTER A WRITTEN NOTICE IS ISSUED THAT   THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD HAS CLOSED

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