# PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF FORT LAUDERDALE-PALM BEACH, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2014 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400241595`
- **Case Number:** 04-2014-2023
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO./FORT LAUDERDALE-PALM BEACH (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

5/21/2014 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $5,875. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

ORDER ALLEGES:
ON JULY 25, 2013, RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE ABOVE THE RQ AT THE FACILITY.

EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC AS SOON AS RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN ITS RQ AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

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