# AROCHEM INTERNATIONAL, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `4555`
- **Case Number:** 02-1992-0206
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $615K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AROCHEM INTERNATIONAL, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL RECOMMENDS THAT A CLAIM BE FILED WITH THE    UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF           CONNECTICUT (BANKRUPTCY COURT) IN THE CHAPTER 7 OF THE       BANKRUPTCY CODE (11 U.S.C. SECTION 101) PROCEEDING.  THE     CLAIM RELATES TO RECOVERY TO SUCH CIVIL PENALTIES AND COSTS  AS MAY ARISE FROM THE CIVIL JUDICIAL ACTION FILED AGAINST    THE COMPANY ON DECEMBER 13, 1991, IN THE UNITED STATES       DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.  IN THAT     ACTION, UNITED STATES VS. AROCHEM INTERNATIONAL, INC.,       CIV NO. 91-2549-CC, INITIATED PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF     THE CLEAN WATER ACT, 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1319, THE GOVERNMENT  HAS ALLEGED THAT AROCHEM VIOLATED SECTION 402 OF THE ACT,    DURING THE PERIOD OF 1988 TO 1992.  A CONSENT DECREE BE-     TWEEN AROCHEM AND THE UNITED STATES WAS FILED CONTEMPOR-     ANEOUSLY WITH THE COMPLAINT.  THE INTERVENING BANKRUPTCY     ACTION HAS PREVENTED THE COURT FROM TIMELY ENTERING THIS     DECREE.                                                        AROCHEM HAS NOT OPERATED AT ITS PENUELAS SITE SINCE ITS    CREDITORS FILED INVOLUNTARY PETITIONS FOR RELIEF PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPCTY CODE ON FEBRUARY 14, 1992.  ON  AUGUST 7, 1992, AROCHEM AND ITS CREDITORS FILED AN ORDER     IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT CONVERTING THE AROCHEM CASES FROM    CASES UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE TO CASES       UNDER CHAPTER 7 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.  THE ENVIRONMENTAL   VIOLATIONS ALLEGED IN THE CIVIL JUDICI

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