# STEGER-HEIDERSCHEIT CONSTR & STATE OF IA
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42303`
- **Case Number:** 07-1984-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $26K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HEIDERSCHEIT, LYLE D/B/A STEGER-HEIDERSC (complaint) (settlement)
- IOWA, STATE OF (complaint) (settlement)
- STEGER, DAVID M. D/B/A STEGER-HEIDERSCHI (complaint) (settlement)
- STEGER-HEIDERSCHEIT CONSTRUCTION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

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

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