# 5 MF HOLDINGS LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600974723`
- **Case Number:** 01-2017-7002
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- 5 MF Holdings LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On March 3, 2017, Region 1 issued an Administrative Complaint alleging that 5 MF Holding, LLC (Respondent) failed to comply with lead-based paint disclosure requirements of TSCA Section 1018's (Disclosure Rule.)  The Disclosure Rule ensures that purchasers and renters of housing built before 1978 receive the information necessary to protect themselves and their families from lead-based paint hazards.  Respondent owns two buildings containing a total of nine units of target housing.  The Complaint alleges eight violations of the Disclosure Rule requirements at two residential units owned by Respondent.  A child under the age of two was living in each unit at the time of the violations.  Each of these children was reported to have elevated blood levels.  The Complaint proposes a penalty of $81,127.  Many residences built before 1978 have lead-based paint which can be toxic to humans and animals.  This enforcement action will promote the protection of public health.  

8/1/17  Region 1 filed a consent agreement and final order settling claims for civil penalties against 5 MF Holding, LLC for violating TSCA by failing to disclose known lead-based paint and/or lead-based paint hazards in the course of leasing property in Coventry, Rhode Island.  The settlement calls for the payment of a $7,300 penalty and the performance of a lead-based paint abatement Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) worth $65,700.  The proposed SEP will involve the removal and replacement of lead-based

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