# Valent U.S.A. LLC - CAFO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2025 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604146901`
- **Case Number:** 09-2025-4009
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Edmund Baumgartner, VP (complaint) (settlement)
- Eric Tamichi, Senior Director (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX ( EPA ), and Valent U.S.A. LLC ( Respondent ) agree to settle this matter and consent to the entry of this Consent Agreement and Final Order ( CAFO ), which simultaneously commences and concludes this matter in accordance with 40 C.F.R. Sections 22.13 and 22.18. This is a civil administrative action instituted pursuant to Section 14(a)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ( FIFRA  or  the Act ), as amended, 7 U.S.C. Section 136(a)(1), for the assessment of a civil penalty against Respondent for violation of Section 12 of the Act.

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