# CENTRAL ABATEMENT CO., INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Default Order, No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35541`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0196
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order, No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CENTEX-BATESON CONST. CO. INC. (complaint)
- CENTRAL ABATEMENT CO., INC. (complaint)
- OLSHAN DEMOLISHING CO.,INC. (complaint)
## Summary

CENTRAL ABATEMENT CO., INC. OPERATED AN ASBESTOS             ABATEMENT COMPANY BASED IN ARDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA             WHICH CONTRACTED AND PERFORMED ASBESTOS REMOVAL              ACTIVITIES AT THE OLD VETERANS ADMINISTRATION                HOSPITAL FACILITY IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.  THE FACILITY           CONSISTED OF SEVERAL BUILDINGS WHICH WERE TO BE              DEMOLISHED AFTER ASBESTOS REMOVAL WAS COMPLETED.             BOTH THE ASBESTOS REMOVAL AND THE REMAINING                  DEMOLITION HAVE SINCE BEEN COMPLETED.                        *                                                            REGION 6 EPA SENT INSPECTORS TO THE ASBESTOS REMOVAL         ACTIVITIES AT THE HOSPITAL FACILITY ON 8/21/91.  THEY        FOUND: 1.  FAILURE TO WET ASBESTOS DURING REMOVAL            UNTIL CONTAINED IN LEAK-TIGHT CONTAINERS AS REQUIRED         BY 40 CFR 61.145(C), AND A RELEASE OF VISIBLE ASBESTOS       CONTAINING EMISSIONS TO THE OUTSIDE AIR IN VIOLATION         OF 40 CFR 61.150(A).  EPA FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE            COMPLAINT UNDER SECTION 113(D) OF THE ACT ON 5/20/92         CITING CENTRAL FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ASBESTOS NESHAP         WORK PRACTICE STANDARDS, AND SEEKING CIVIL PENALTIES         OF $33,000.                                                  *                                                            EPA WAS UNAWARE WHEN IT FILED ITS COMPLAINT THAT             CENTRAL HAD ALREADY FILED FOR CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY           PROTECTION IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT O

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