# HEARTLAND CEMENT CO, INDEPENDENCE, KS
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `46518`
- **Case Number:** 07-1999-0346
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HEARTLAND CEMENT CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- RINECO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

10/19/99:  EPA HAS TAKEN THREE SEPARATE ADMINISTRATIVE       ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AGAINST HEARTLAND, INCLUDING THE         ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL PENALTIES.  IN ADDITION, IN 1997,        EPA PERFORMED A COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE AUDIT AT HEARTLAND'S   LAGORATORY IN A FURTHER EFFORT TO BRING THE FACILITY INTO    COMPLIANCE WITH RCRA.  DESPITE THESE REPEATED CONTACTS WITH  REGULATORSWHICH INCLUDED BOTH ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE     ASSISTANCE EFFORTS, KDHE INSPECTORS FOUND NUMEROUS VIOLATION S DURING A 1998 INSPECTION OF THE FACILITY.  BECAUSE OF      HEARTLAND'SHISTORY OF NONCOMPLIANCE, KDHE AND EPA HAS        DECIDED THAT A CIVIL JUDICIAL REFERRAL IS APPROPRIATE        FOR THE VIOLATIONS DISCUSSED IN THIS REFERRAL.  THE EPA      HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH KDHE IN DEVELOPING THIS REFERRAL,    AND KDHE AGREES THAT EPA SHOULD REFER THIS MATTER TO THE     DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

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