# COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, CARROLL, IA
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `43947`
- **Case Number:** 07-1990-0449
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $150K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- HOUGH, CURTIS L. (settlement)
## Summary

COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY LOCATED IN CARROLL COUNTY, IOWA EMPLOYS APPROXIMATELY 50 TO 60 PEOPLE AND IS IN THE BUSINESS OF REMANUFACTURING COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT.       MULTI-MEDIA REFERRAL ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF BOTH RCRA AND    CWA.  THERE ARE TWO RCRA VIOLATIONS:  FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH A SECTION 3013 ORDER WHICH WAS ISSUED ON MARCH 23, 1989 AND  FAILURE TO RESPOND TO A SECTION 3007 INFORMATION REQUEST     WHICH WAS ISSUED ON JULY 7, 1989.  THE RELIEF SOUGHT FOR     THESE VIOLATIONS IS IN THE FORM OF PENALTIES CALCULATED FROM THE DATE OF NON-COMPLIANCE BASED ON THE RCRA PENALTY POLICY  AND AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT CALCULATION; IN ADDITION, COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECTION 3013 ORDER AND THE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION  IS SOUGHT.  COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY HAS ALSO VIOLATED   SECTION 402 OF CWA AND THEIR NPDES PERMIT BY FAILING TO      SUBMIT DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORTS.  PENALTIES ARE          REQUESTED FOR THESE VIOLATIONS AS WELL AS COMPLIANCE WITH    THE NPDES PERMIT AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT.                    CWA PORTION OF THE CASE:                                     REGIONAL ATTORNEY:  BILL WARD    FTS-276-7285                PROGRAM CONTACT:  DON TOENSING   FTS-276-7446                CATEGORY OF VIOLATOR:  SNC                                   OTHER PROGRAM SPECIFIC INFO:  IND                            VIOLATION:  FAILURE TO MONITOR AND REPORT.                   STATE DELEGATED:  YES, DNR.

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