# LUFKIN CREOSOTING CO.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33828`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0043
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $21K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LUFKIN CREOSOTING CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

LUFKIN CREOSOTING COMPANY CONDUCTS ITS BUSINESS OF PRESSURE, TREATING LUMBER, POLES AND PILES WITH CREOSOTING ON US       HGHWY 69 SINCE 1979 PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED ITS BUSINESS AT     1411 EASTER LUFKIN AVE.  LUFKIN CREOSOTING COMPANY DID NOT   IDENTIFY ITSELF AS A TREATER, STORER, OR DISPOSAL OF HAZ     WASTE.  ON AUGUST 18, 1982, THE FACILITY WAS INSPECTED BY    TDWR AND WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 3004/3005/3010.  IT    WAS NOTED THAT THE FACILITY STORED EXCESS CREOSOTE AND       BOTTOM SEDIMENT SLUDGE IN ITS OXIDATION POND.  LUFKIN        CREOSOTING WERE SITED FOR NUMEROUS VIOLATIONS SUCH AS NO     PART A APPLICATION PERMIT, NO CLOSURE PLAN, FAILURE TO       INSPECT SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT, NO CONTINGENCY PLAN, PERSONNEL  TRAINING, AND GROUNDWATER MONITORING.                        *                                                            A COMPLIANT ORDER WAS ISSUED ON MARCH 30, 1984, A PROPOSED   CIVIL PENALTY OF $43,100 WAS ASSESSED.  THE PENALTY WAS      ADJUSTED $21,000 AND WAS COLLECTED.  CASE CONCLUDED.

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