# SPARTON SOUTHWEST, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33773`
- **Case Number:** 06-1983-0030
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SPARTON SOUTHWEST, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RCRA VI-18-H.                                                SPARATON SOUTHWEST CONDUCTS ITS BUSINESS OF MANFACTURER AND  ASSEMBLY OF TELECOMMUNICATION COMPONENETS IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM AND IS A TREATER OF HAZARDOUS WASTE.  SPARATON NOTIFIED EPA  THAT IT WAS A HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATOR AND AN OWNER/OPERA-  TOR OF A HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY.  NOTED DURING THE         INSPECTION SPARATON DID NOT HAVE A FINANCIAL ASSURANCE PLAN  IN THE CASE OF SUDDEN ACCIDENT, BODILY INJURY OR PROPER      DAMAGE.  SPARATON WAS CITED FOR NOT HAVING A FINANCIAL       ASSURANCE PLAN.                                              *                                                            THE PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY $3,000.  THE PENALTY WAS RE-      ASSESSED TO $2,000 AFTER RECEIVING A FINANCIAL BOND COVERING SUDDEN ACCIDENT.                                             *                                                            FEB 1, 1983, EPA ISSUED A WARNING LETTER REQUESTING A        QUARTERLY AND ANNUALGROUNDWATER MONITORING REPORT.  MAY 2,   1983, EPA RECEIVED A LETTER STATING THE COMPANY HAD NOT      INITIATED A GROUNDWATER MONITORING PROGRAM BUT ARE PLANNING  TO.                                                          *                                                            SPARATON SOUTHWEST WAS CITED FOR HAVING A GROUNDWATER        MONITORING PLAN AND FINANCIAL ASSURANCE.                     *                                                            PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED $13,

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