# LEAD PRODUCTS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37330`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0502
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LEAD PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 7003 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ).                                             2. LEAD PRODUCTS COMPANY                                        709 NORTH VELASCO STREET                                     HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77003                       3. EPA HAS IDENTIFIED ELEVATED LEVELS OF LEAD IN SOILS OF       THE CARY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR THE LEAD PRODUCTS FACI-    LITY. EVIDENCE OF THE CONTAMINATION WAS PRESENTED TO THE     REPRESENTATIVES OF LEAD PRODUCTS, WHO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED      THAT ONE POTENTIAL SOURCE OF THE LEAD IS FROM HISTORIC       DISPOSAL OF WASTE BATTERY CASINGS. EPA BELIEVES THE LEVEL    OF LEAD ON CARY STREET MAY CONSTITUTE AN IMMINENT AND        SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT. IT IS EPA'S GOAL TO EXPEDI-        TIOUSLY REMEDIATE THOSE SURFACE SOILS AND UNPAVED ROAD SO    AS TO LIMIT THE EXPOSURE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION TO HAZ-     ARDOUS WASTECONSTITUENTS, SPECIFICALLY, LEAD.                LEAD PRODUCTS REPRESENTATIVESINDICATED THAT LEAD PRODUCTS    IS WILLING TO PROMPTLY UNDERTAKE REMEDIATION OF THE CON-     TAMINATED RESIDENTIAL AREA.                               4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO 7003 OF RCRA, EPA REQUIRES THE     RESPONDENT TO 1) PAVE CARY STREET WITHIN 3 WEEKS FOLLOW-     ING RECEIPT OF THE LETTER ACCORDING TO STANDARDS OF THE      CITY OF HOUSTON, 2) EXCAVATE SOIL CONTAINING GREATER THAN    400 MG/KG TOTAL LEAD TO LEVELS LESS THAN 400 MG/KG OR THE    DEPTH OF 2 FEET, 3) BACKFILL EXCA

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