# LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35197`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $46K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

03/27/91:  SYNOPSIS OF CASE:  IN JUNE OF 1990 THE LITTLE   ROCK SHCOOL DISTRICT PROVIDED NOTICE TO THE AR DEPARTMENT OF POLLUTION CONTROL & ECOLOGY (ADPC&E) THAT APPROXIMATELY      10,000 SQUARE FEET OF ASBESTOS-CONTAINING FLOOR TILE, 1,200  SQUARE FEET OF OUTSIDE CEMENT ASBESTOS BOARD WOULD BE REMOVE D AT THE PANKY EXCEPTIONAL SCHOOL, A SCHOOL BUILDING WHICH   HAD BURNED IN 1988, IN A PLANNED DEMOLITION PROJECT SCHEDULE D TO BEGIN ON JULY 5, 1990.  PRIOR TO COMPETION OF THE       ASBESTOS REMOVAL, NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS PETITIONED THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK TO ALLOW THEN TO PURCHASE THE BUILDIN FOR USE AS A COMMUNITY CENTER AND UPON THE COUNCIL'S REQUEST THE SCHOOL DISTRICT STOPPED DEMOLITION ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING  ASBESTOS REMOVAL, AT THE SITE.  DURING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT' S SUBSEQUENT EFFORTS TO COMPLETE THE ASBESTOS REMOVAL ADPC&E DOCUMENTED SEVERAL VIOLATIONS OF THE CAA & ITS IMPLEMENTING  REGULATIONS CONCERNING ASBESTOS.  THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ALSO   FAILED TO REPORT THE RELEASE OF ASBESTOS IN EXCESS OF ONE    POUND IN VIOLATION OF CERCLA.

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