# DIXIE ELECTRO PLATING
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37329`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0501
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $50K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DIXIE ELECTRO PLATING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 7003 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ).                                             2. DIXIE ELECTRO PLATING                                        3001 ENGLEKE STREET                                          HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77003                       3. EPA HAS IDENTIFIED CHROMIUM CONTAMINATION IN SOILS OF THE    RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD ADJACENT TO THE DIXIE FACILITY.     EVIDENCE OF THE CONTAMINATION WAS PRESENTED TO DIXIE'S       REPRESENTATIVES, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE SOURCE OF THE     CHROMIUM IS FROM HISTORIC OPERATION AND STORM WATER RUN-     OFF FROM DIXIE'S FACILITY. THE LEVEL OF CHROMIUM IN THE      300 BLOCK OF ENNIS STREET MAY CONSTITUTE AN IMMINENT AND     SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 7003 OF         RCRA. CONSEQUENTLY, IT IS THE AGENCY'S GOAL TO EXPEDI-       TIOUSLY REMEDIATE THOSE SURFACE SOILS AND UNPAVED ROADS      SO AS TO LIMIT THE EXPOSURE TO THE LOCAL POPULATION TO       HAZARDOUS WASTE CONSTITUENTS, SPECIFICALLY CHROMIUM.         DIXIE REPRESENTATIVES INDICATED THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO     PROMPTLY UNDERTAKE REMEDIATION OF THE CONTAMINATED RESID-    ENTIAL AREAS.                                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 7003 OF RCRA, EPA WILL     REQUIRE THE RESPONDENT TO 1) PAVE THE 300 BLOCK OF ENNIS     STREET IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STANDARDS OF ROAD CONSTRUC-    TION USED BY THE CITY OF HOUSTON, TX. WITHIN 3 WEEKS RE-     CEIPT OF THE LETTER, 2) SOILS CON

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