# SALGAS/EMPIRE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1990 · — · Unknown
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `48718`
- **Case Number:** 08-1990-0184
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unknown
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EMPIRE GAS CORP. (complaint)
- SALGAS INC. OF CRESTED BUTTE
## Summary

ON MARCH 22, 1990, AT 4:00 PM, EPA HAND DELIVERED AN         ORIGINAL AND COPIES OF A RCRA 7003 UNILATERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER TO TH REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT OF EMPIRE GAS CORP-      ORATION AND THE ATTORNEY FOR  SALGAS INC. OF CRESTED BUTTE.  SALGAS, A CORLORADO CORP. IS WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF      EMPIRE, A MISSOURI CORP.. SALGAS OPERATES A PROPANE DISTRI-  BUTION SYSTEM IN CRESTED BUTTE, IT'S OFFICES ARE DOWN THE    ROAD IN GUNNISON.                                            ON MARCH 20, CRESTED BUTTE TOWN OFFICALS CALLED EPA REGARD-  ING WHAT THEY CONSIDERED TO BE A DANGEROUS SITUATION.  THE   TOWN FIRE MARSHALL HAD DETERMINED THAT AT LEAST THREE BUILD- INGS IN DOWNTOWN CB WERE IN DANGER BECAUSE OF EXTROARDINARIL Y HIGH LEVELS OF PROPANE VAPORS.  FURTHER, SUCH LEVELS WERE  FOUND UNDERGROUND AT VARIOUS POINTS THROUGH THE AREA.  THERE WAS EXTENSIVE CAUSE FOR CONCERN BECAUSE THE BANK IN THE      DOWNTOWN AREA WAS RECENTLY DEMOLISHED BY AN UNEXPLAINED      EXPLOSION.  MANY PEOPLE WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND THREE     PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.                                     CRESTED BUTTE WAS ALSO CONCERNED BECAUSE THE STATE HAD NOT   RESPONDED EFFECTIVELY.                                       THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEAMS   RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY BY SENDING NUMEROUS QUALIFIED PERSONNE L TO REVIEW THE SITUATION AND MEASURES BEING TAKEN. WHILE    THIS RESPONSE WAS BEING IMPLEMENTED IT WAS DETERMINED THAT   RCRA WAS THE STATUTE MOST DIRECTLY A

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