# CABOT CORP/HOTCO - CANAL PLANT
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33764`
- **Case Number:** 06-1983-0021
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $11K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CABOT CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOTCO INSULATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                        CABOT CORPORATION OWNS AND OPERATES A FURNACE PROCESS      CARBON BLACK FACILITY IN ST. MARY PARISH NEAR CENTERVILLE,   LA.  CABOT & ITS CONTRACTOR, HOTCO INSULATION OF FRANKLIN    LA., CONDUCTED A RENOVATION PROJECT TO REMOVE INSULATION     FROM AN OVERHEAD PIPE RACK.  THE PROJECT WAS SUBJECT TO THE  REQURIEMENTS OF THE NAT'L EMISSION STANDARDS FOR THE HAZAR-  DOUS AIR POLLUTANT ASBESTOS.  REGION VI REQUESTS CIVIL SUIT  FOR PENALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF PURSUANT TO SECTION 113B OF THE CAA FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THOSE REQUIREMENTS.         CAUSE OF ACTION                                           DURING AN INSPECTION BY THE STATE OF LA AND EPA ON 3/8/83, INSPECTORS OBSERVED A RENOVATION PROJECT INVOLVING REMOVAL   OF APPARENT ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIAL FROM AN OVERHEAD    PIPE RACK.  CABOT HAD FAILED TO SUBMIT THE REQUIRED NOTICE   OF ITS INTENTION TO RENOVATE PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF THE    PROJECT.  CABOT AND ITS CONTRACTOR ALSO FAILED TO WET THE    FRIABLE ASBESTOS DURING THE STRIPPING OPERATION.  IN A 1978  CASE, THE SUPREME COURT HELD THAT PARTS OF THE ASBESTOS      NESHAP IN THE FORM OF WORK-PRACTICE STANDARDS WERE NOT       EMISSION STANDARDS WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 112.        ?ADAMO WRECKING CO. V. US, 434 U.S. 275 (1978)!  CABOT AND   HOTCO ARE BEING CITED ONLY FOR PROVISIONS OF THE REGULATION  WHICH WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THE ADAMO CASE, OR WHICH WERE     REPROMULGATED AFTER THE 1977 AMENDMENTS T

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