# SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601414158`
- **Case Number:** 04-2018-2012
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

4/17/2018 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $6319.  RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.  RESPONDENT ALSO AGREES TO COMPLETE A SEP.

ORDER ALLEGES:
ON NOVEMBER 12, 2015, A RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID ABOVE THE RQ OCCURRED AT THE FACILITY.

THE EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC AS SOON AS RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN ITS RQ AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

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