# CPS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34374`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0131
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1.00M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CPS CHEMICAL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            DEFENDANT:                                                   CPS CHEMICAL CO, INC. OWNS AND OPERATES A SPECIALTY CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING CO LOCATED IN WEST MEMPHIS, ARK.               *                                                            VIOLATIONS:                                                  VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE ACT, BY DISCHARGING W/O A    PERMIT.                                                      *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF:                                             SETTLEMENT IN THE FORM OF A CONSENT DECREE AND A MINIMUM     CIVIL PENALTY IN THE AMOUNT OF $150,000.  THE REGION         REQUESTS AUTHORIZATION TO COMMENCE SETTLEMENT NEGOIATIONS.   *                                                            RECENT CONTACTS:                                             THE MOST RECENT MEETING WITH PELLERIN-MILNOR REPS WAS HELD   ON NOV 3, 1987.  TO DATE, PERMIT VIOLATIONS CONTINUE.        *                                                            CASE SYNOPSIS:                                               CPS CHEMICAL CO, INC. OWNS AND OPERATES A SPECIALTY CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING CO LOCATED IN WEST MEMPHIS, ARK.               *                                                            EPA ISSUED NPDES PERMIT NO. AR0037770 TO CPS ON 8/29/84,     WITH AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF 8/30/84.  

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