9/17/2025 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $13,850.00 TO BE PAID IN 30 DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS CAFO.
ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:
ON JUNE 27, 2024, AN INSPECTOR WITH THE EPA CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION AT POPLAR HOMES? PLACE OF BUSINESS LOCATED AT 4000 SOUTH SABER DRIVE, SUITE 300, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29405, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATING POPLAR HOMES? COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF 40 C.F.R. PART
745, SUBPARTS E AND F. AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION, THE EPA INSPECTOR REQUESTED COPIES OF POPLAR HOMES? RECORDS IN
ORDER FOR THE EPA TO EVALUATE POPLAR HOMES? COMPLIANCE WITH 40 C.F.R. PART 745, SUBPARTS E AND F. POPLAR HOMES? REPRESENTATIVE STATED THAT THE RECORDS WERE NOT AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME BUT WOULD BE PROVIDED TO THE EPA AFTER THE INSPECTION. ON JULY 18, 2024, POPLAR HOMES SUBMITTED RECORDS TO THE EPA FOR REVIEW TO EVALUATE ITS COMPLIANCE WITH 40 C.F.R. PART 745, SUBPARTS E AND F.
BASED ON THE EPA?S REVIEW OF THE RECORDS SUBMITTED BY POPLAR HOMES SUBSEQUENT TO THE EPA?S INSPECTION, THE EPA ALLEGES THAT POPLAR HOMES IN ITS CAPACITY AS AN AGENT CONCERNING THE LEASING OF TARGET HOUSING DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH 30 OF THIS CAFO, FAILED TO:
A. PROVIDE THE LESSEES OF THE PROPERTIES WITH THE EPA-APPROVED LEAD HAZARD INFORMATION PAMPHLET PRIOR TO THE LESSEES BECOMING OBLIGATED UNDER THE LEASES IN VIOLATION OF 40
C.F.R. ? 745.107(A)(1);
B. INCLUDE AS AN ATTACHMENT OR WITHIN THE CONTRACTS TO LEASE TARGET HOUSING THE APPROP