VIOLATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF NESHAPS ASBESTOS DEMOLITION REGULATIONS. A. & B. DEFENDANT COMPANY, UNDER CONTRACT TO THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (IDOT) IS DEMOLISHING SEVERAL BUILDINGS PRIOR TO HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, AT A LOCATION NEAR THE CORNER OF ELM AND EAST 12TH STREET, DUBUQUE, IOWA. THE BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED AROUND 1912, AND CONTAIN MORE THAN THE REGUALTORY MINIMUM AMOUNT OF ASBESTOS NECESSARY TO ESTABLISH JURISDICTION. MR. POERTE HAMLIN, IOWA DEPARTMENT OF WATER, AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT (515-281-8692) NOTIFIED JOANN HEIMAN OF THE REGION VII OFFICE THAT THE DEMOLITION PROJECT WAS ONGOING AND THAT ASBESTOS WAS PRESENT IN THE BUILDINGS. MR. HAMLIN HAD RECEIVED A COMPLAINT FROM BOB WRIGHT (515-270-6961) OF A LABORER'S UNION. MR. WRIGHT WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WORKING CONDITIONS AT THE SITE, INVOLVING TSCHIGGFRIE EXCAVATING, A SUBCONTRACTOR TO STEGER-HEIDERSCHEIT. THEY WERE NOT PROVIDING WORKER PROTECTION FOR THE ASBESTOS PRESENT. EPA WAS NOT ABLE TO CONTACT TSCHIGGFRIE EXCAVATING, BUT DID CONTACT MR. STEGER, AS NOTED BELOW. FOLLOWING OUR INITIAL INSPECTION, MR. STEGER ATTEMPTED TO COMPLY BY PRO- VIDING LATE NOTICE BY LETTER RECIEVED APRIL 9, 1984. THERE ARE 21 BUILDINGS INVOLVED, OF WHICH WE HAD INSPECTED FIVE BUILDINGS. THESE FIVE BUILDINGS CON