# BESSER COMPANY USA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600246094`
- **Case Number:** 07-2015-0352
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BESSER COMPANY USA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

INDUSTRIAL STORMWATER VIOLATIONS AT BESSER COMPANY USA'S QUINN MACHINE & FOUNDRY FACILITY NEAR BOONE, IOWA.  THE FACILITY'S SWPPP LACKED MANY ELEMENTS; THE FACILITY FAILED TO IMPLEMENT ADEQUATE CONTROL MEASURES; IT FAILED TO CONDUCT SWPPP TRAINING; THERE WERE NUMEROUS INADEQUACIES WITH THE SAMPLING PROTOCOLS; THE FACILITY FAILED TO CONDUCT SELF-INSPECTIONS REQUIRED BY ITS SWPPP; AND THE INSPECTOR NOTED UNAUTHORIZED NON-STORMWATER DISCHARGES.

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*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*