# EAGLE PICHER INDUSTRIES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34544`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0518
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $138K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EAGLE PICHER, IND. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            EAGLE-PICHER WAS A RCRA INTERIM STATUS FACILITY IN THE BUSI- NESS OF REFINING GERMANIUM, GALLIUM AND GALLIUM ARSENIDE,    GROWING SINLE CRYSTAL SILICON AND PRODUCING NATURAL BORON    AND LITHIUM HYDROXIDE.                                       *                                                            THE FACILITY'S WASTES ARE PLACED IN A CLAY LINED SURFACE     IMPOUNDMENT.  THESE WASTES INCLUDE CORROSIVE CHARACTISTIC,   EP-TOXIC CHRACTERISTIC FOR ARSENIC AND SELENIUM, METHANOL    AND ARSENIC ACID WASTES.                                     *                                                            THE FACILITY HAS BEEN SEEKING A PART B PERMIT FROM THE OSDH. *                                                            ON AUGUST 22, 1985, THE OSDH SENT A WARNING LETTER/NOTICE    OF DEFICIENCY TO THE FACILITY DETAILING INADEQUACIES IN      THEIR PART B PERMIT APPLICATION INCLUDING THE FACT THAT THE  GROUNDWATER MONITORING SYSTEM WAS INADEQUATELY CONSTRUCTED   AND LOCATED.                                                 *                                                            ON SEPT 5, 1985, THE OSDH AND EPA MET WITH THE FACILITY TO   DISCUSS THE INADEQUACY OF ITS GROUNDWATER MONITORING SYS-    TEM.  THE FACILITY MAINTAINS THAT IT CANNOT UPGRADE ITS      SYSTEM UNTIL THE EPA'S GROUNDWATER TECHNICAL ENFORCEMENT     GUIDANCE DOCUMENT IS MADE FINAL.    

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