# MARION PRESSURE TREATING
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33841`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0057
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARION PRESSURE TREATING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MARION PRESSURE TREATING CO, EPA ID LAD008473142 WAS REFER-  RED TO EPA FOR ENFORCEMENT ACTION BY THE LDEQ.               *                                                            MARION IS A WOOD TREATING FACILITY WHICH WAS INSPECTED BY    EPA ON APRIL 25, 1984.  AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION,       MARION HAD AN UNPERMITTED HAZ WASTE STORAGE FACILITY WHICH   INCLUDED TWO UNCOVERED METAL TANKS WHICH RECEIVE K001 WASTE  FROM THE FLOCCULATION UNIT, AN UNLINED INACTIVE SURFACE IM-  POUNDMENT WHICH IS USED TO STORE K001 SLUDGE FROM THE TREAT- MENT OF CREOSOTE WASTEWATERS, AND AN UNCOVERED WASTE PILE    WHICH CONSISTS OF K001 SLUDGE WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM    THE BOTTOM OF THE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT AND PLACED ON THE      GROUND FOR DRYING AND STORAGE PRIOR TO OFF-SITE SHIPMENT.    ADDITIONALLY, MARION HAD ALREADY BEGUN CLOSURE OF THE SUR-   FACE IMPOUNDMENT WITHOURT SUBMITTING A CLOSURE PLAN OR       RECEIVING PERMISSION FROM THE STATE.  THE K001 SLUDGE ON     THE BOTTOM OF THE IMPOUNDMENT HAD BEEN REMOVED BY DRAGLINE   AND DUMPED IN THE WASTE PILE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED.           THE VIOLATIONS FOUND DURING THE APRIL 25, 1984 INSPECTION    ARE SUMMARIZED IN THE COMPLIANCE ORDER FACT SHEET AND IN-    CLUDE VIOLATIONS SUCH AS LACK OF A GROUNDWATER MONITORING    SYSTEM, NO PART A PERMIT APPLICATION FOR ITS HAZ WASTE       STORAGE FACILITY, NO CLOSURE PLAN, AND NO FINANCIAL          ASSURANCE.                                                   *                                   

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