# COLORADO ORGANIC CHEMICAL CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47696`
- **Case Number:** 08-1982-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $94K
- **Cost recovery:** $39K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COLORADO ORGANIC CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
- FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF DENVER(TRUSTEE) (complaint) (settlement)
- MOZER, PHILLIP C. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

COC AND MOZER FAILED TO COMPLY WITH A 1982 RCRA CONSENT AGRE EMENT AND FINAL ORDER(CAFO).  ADDITIONALLY, SUBSEQUENT TO    THE CAFO, COC AND MOZER CONTINUED TO OPERATE AS A GENERATOR, STORER, AND DISPOSER OF HAZARDOUS WASTES WITH NEITHER A      RCRA PERMIT OR INTERIUM STATUS.  THE COMPANY IS IN VIOLATION OF VIRTUALLY ALL INTERIUM STATUS REGULATION (40 C.F.R. PART  265).

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