# ALTER TRADING CORPORATTION - APO/CAFO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604082644`
- **Case Number:** 05-2024-5044
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ALTER TRADING CORPORTATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Alter owns in operates several scrap recycling facilities throughout Region 5. EPA inspected many of the Alter?s facilities from 2018 through 2021. EPA discovered instances in which Alter failed to maintain all necessary information on required documentation and failed to ensure that refrigerant from each appliance was recovered properly. A concurrent Administrative Consent Order is being issued.

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