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AMERICAN WOODCRAFT ADMIN ORDER ON CONSENT (CERCLA)

Administrative - Formal · FY2002 · — · — · 33577

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-2002-0237
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (2)

Summary

THE AMERICAN WOODCRAFT INC. SITE IS A FACILITY THAT, BASED ON THE MICHIGAN MANUFACTURERS DIRECTORY, MANUFACTURED FIX- TURES FOR OFFICES AND STORES. BASED ON AVAILABLE INFORMA- TION, THE COMPANY WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1952 AND AUTOMATICALLY DISSOLVED IN 1998. A NOTIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE DATED 1989 INDICATES THAT THE FACILITY WAS A SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR OF F003 LISTED HAZARDOUS WASTE. THERE ARE 30-40 DRUMS OF FLAMMABLE WASTE AT THIS UNSECURED FACILTY. OSC NEEDS TO KNOW WHO OWNS THE SITE SO U.S. EPA CAN REQUEST ACCESS FOR A SITE ASSESSMENT. THE PROPERTY MAY BE IN THE PROCESS OF AN OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF ABANDONMENT, BUT THE STATE HAS NOT YET TAKEN TITLE. OSC CANNOT GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER ON OWNERSHIP FROM THE LOCALS WITH WHOM SHE HAS SPOKEN NOR HAS MDEQ BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE ANYONE FOR CERTAIN. ENFORCEMENT SPECIALIST IS AWAITING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE OSC AND MDEQ AND WILL THEN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE OWNERSHIP.

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