# AMERICAN CHROME AND CHEMICAL INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35402`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0056
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $60K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CHROME AND CHEMICAL INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VIOLATIONS:  FAILURE TO HAVE SUBMERGED FILL PIPES ON         TWO STORAGE TANKS USED FOR STORAGE OF VOLATILE ORGANIC       COMPOUNDS AS REQUIRED BY THE TEXAS SIP; FAILURE TO           MAINTAIN AN INACTIVE ASBESTOS LANDFILL SO AS TO PREVENT      VISIBLE EMISSIONS; AND FAILURE TO DEED RECORD THE            REQUIRED NOTICES AND FILINGS WITH EPA FOR THE ASBESTOS       LANDFILL.                                                    *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF TO BE SOUGHT:  A CIVIL PENALTY FOR           ACC'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH 40 CFR PART 61 SUBPART M        AND REGULATION V, 115.101 OF THE TEXAS STATE                 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.                                         *                                                            A MULTI-MEDIA INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED AT THE AMERICAN       CHROME FACILITY ON 3/25-30 AND 4/22-26, 1991 AS PART OF      THE TOXIC RELEASE REDUCTION PROJECT (TRRP) INITIATED BY      THE REGION, SUPORTED BY SUBSEQUENT ADMISSIONS BY ACC.        *                                                            REFERRAL WAS SIGNED BY RA 3/30/92.                           *                                                            SYNOPSIS:  AMERICAN CHROME AND CHEMICAL INC. (ACC) OWNS      AND OPERATES A CHEMICAL PLANT AT 3800 BUDDY LAWRENCE         DRIVE IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TX.  THE FACILITY CONSISTS OF       THREE PROCESSES THAT MANUFACTURE SODIUM DICHROMATE (DCS),    CHROMIUM OXIDE, AND CHROMIC ACID FRO

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