# HANCOCK MANUFACTURING, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33167`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0535
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $125K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HANCOCK MANUFACTURING, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SOURCE IS SUBJECT TO DEGREASER MACT AT 40 CFR PART 63 SUB-   PART T NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HALOGENATED SOLVENT   CLEANING MACHINES.                                           HANCOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., TORONTO, OHIO,          (HANCOCK) MANUFACTURERS  CANS  FOR AUTOMOBILE OIL FILTERS    AND CASINGS FOR CAR AIR CONDITIONING UNITS.                  HANCOCK HAS SEVEN IN-LINE VAPOR HALOGENATED SOLVENT CLEANING MACHINES (VAPOR DEGREASERS).  SIX OF THE VAPOR DEGREASERS    ARE  EXISTING  AS DEFINED BY 40 C.F.R. PART 63, SUBPART T,   (DEGREASER MACT) AND ONE IS A  NEW  VAPOR DEGREASERS AS      DEFINED IN THE SAME SUBPART.  THE SIX EXISTING VAPOR         DEGREASERS USE TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE) AS A SOLVENT AND THE  NEW VAPOR DEGREASER USES METHYLENE CHLORIDE.                 ON JANUARY 4, 2000, THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECT- ION AGENCY, REGION 5, (U.S. EPA), ISSUED HANCOCK A REQUEST   FOR INFORMATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 114 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT (INFORMATION REQUEST).  IN THE RESPONSE TO THE INFORMATION   REQUEST, DATED JANUARY 24, 2000, HANCOCK SUBMITTED COPIES OF INITIAL NOTIFICATIONS, REQUIRED BY THE DEGREASERS MACT, FOR  THE SIX EXISTING DEGREASERS, DATED AFTER THE COMPLIANCE      DATE, IN VIOLATION OF   63.468 (A).  ALSO, IN THE            NOTIFICATIONS, HANCOCK CHOSE THE ALTERNATIVE STANDARD AS     AN ANTICIPATED COMPLIANCE APPROACH.  TO COMPLY WITH THE      ALTERNATIVE STANDARD 40 C.F.R.  63.464, HANCOCK WOULD HAVE   TO MAINTAIN A MONTHLY LOG OF SOLVENT

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