# TADANO AMERICAS CORPORATION (Houston, TX)
> **Judicial** · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601856798`
- **Case Number:** 03-2019-7000
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- TADANO AMERICA CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- TADANO FAUN GMBH (complaint) (settlement)
- TADANO LIMITED (complaint) (settlement)
- TADANO MANTIS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On August 31, 2023, EPA, Region 3 entered into the Southern District of Texas a Complaint and Consent Decree (?CD?) with Tadano Ltd., Tadano Faun GmbH, Tadano Mantis Corporation, and Tadano America Corporation (collectively, ?Tadano Group?) simultaneously alleging and resolving violations of the Clean Air Act (?CAA?) for its sale, importation, and introductions or delivery of nonroad vehicles and engines into United States commerce that were not certified as compliant to applicable air emission standards and did not qualify as exempt under the Transition Program for Equipment Manufacturers (?TPEM?) program (40 C.F.R. ? 1039.625 and 1039.626).  Due to Tadano Group?s exceedance of the TPEM exemption-allocation limit in the higher engine power category and its failure to comply with TPEM-related bonding and report requirements, Tadano Group violated the certification and reporting provisions of Sections 203(a)(1) and (a)(2) of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. ?? 7522(a)(1) and (a)(2). 

 

On April 9, 2019, EPA referred the Tadano Group case to the Department of Justice (?DOJ?).  EPA and DOJ sent Tadano Group an information request letter (?Section 208 Letter?) on August 11, 2020 and found that the Tadano Group exceeded its TPEM allowance by 210 engines in the higher power category, 80 additional engines lacked bonds disqualifying them from the TPEM, 59 engines were uncertified to current Tier 4 air emission standards, and 164 cranes lacked proper fuel inlet labels.  Furthermo

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