# CONTINENTAL TIRE THE AMERICAS, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604405466`
- **Case Number:** 04-2024-6011
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CONTINENTAL TIRE THE AMERICAS, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MAY 19, 2025 - CONSENT AGREEMENT

On November 15, 2022, and December 19, 2022, Respondent voluntarily submitted certain records to the EPA at the request of the EPA in lieu of the EPA conducting an on-site inspection of Respondent's Facility.

On August 10, 2023, after reviewing the records submitted by Respondent, the EPA issued
Respondent an Opportunity to Show Cause letter alleging that Respondent had potentially
violated Sections 5, 8, and 15 of TSCA, 15 U.S.C. ?? 2604, 2607, and 2614 by failing to comply with the PMN and CDR requirements found in 40 C.F.R. Parts 720 and 711, respectively. On September 25, 2023, Respondent provided additional information to the EPA in response to the Opportunity to Show Cause letter.

The records submitted by Respondent included import records which revealed that Respondent imported a reportable quantity (greater than 25,000 pounds) of Chemicals B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, P, and R for commercial purposes in 2019. Chemicals B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, P, and R were in the TSCA Master Inventory File at the beginning of a submission period, and are not exempted from
the CDR reporting requirements.

Respondent was required to submit a 2020 CDR Report to the EPA for reportable chemical substances that were manufactured (including imported) for commercial purposes in quantities greater than 25,000 pounds in calendar years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 by no later than the end of the 2020 CDR submission period, which was Janua

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