# NITROGEN PRODUCTS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35385`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0038
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $244K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FIVE RIVERS NITROGEN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- NITROGEN PRODUCTS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- ROYSTER COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

01/03/92 SYNOPSIS:                                           NITROGEN PRODUCTS, INC. (NPI) OWNS AND OPERATES A          FERTILIZER PRODUCTION FACILITY LOCATED ON HWY 20 SOUTH,      HELENA IN THE COUNTY OF PHILLIPS, ARK.  ONE INACTIVE         PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK IS LOCATED AT THE FACILITY.  THE         PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK WAS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF PHOSPHORUS FERTILIZER DURING THE YEARS 1967-1977.  THE PHOSPHOGYPSUM    STACK HAS BEEN INACTIVE FROM 1977 TO THE PRESENT.  THE       INACTIVE PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK EMITS RADON-222 TO THE AIR.     THESE EMISSIONS ARE REGULATED BY THE NESHAPS FOR             RADIONUCLIDES.  SPECIFICALLY NIP IS SUBJECT TO 40 C.F.R.     PART 61, SUBPART R, SET FORTH IN 40 C.F.R. 61.200-205.         BY LETTER RECEIVED MARCH 26, 1990, EPA WAS NOTIFIED OF AN  INACTIVE PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK AT FIVE RIVERS NITROGEN         CORPORATION (FRNC) LOCATED IN HELENA, ARK.  IN ORDER TO      DETERMINE THE APPLICABILITY AND COMPLIANCE STATUS OF THE     INACTIVE PHOSPHOGYPSUM STACK, EPA SENT A LETTER TO FRNC      REQUESTING INFORMATION.                                        ON FEBRUARY 6, 1991 NPI RESPONDED TO EPA'S REQUEST FOR IN- FORMATION.  IN THEIR RESPONSE, EPA WAS ADVISED THAT 3579     INVESTMENT CORPORATION (3579) ACQUIRED THE SUBJECT FACILITY  BY DEED TRANSFER FROM FRNC.  PURSUANT TO THIS TRANSFER IN    OCTOBER, 1990, 3579 ENTERED INTO A CONTRACT WITH ROYSTER     COMPANY TO MANAGE AND OPERATE THE FACILITY UNDER THE NAME OF NPI.                                  

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