# AMAX COAL COMPANY (EAGLE-BUTTE)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49112`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0124
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $66K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMAX COAL COMPANY (EAGLE-BUTTE) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT AMAX COAL COMPANY OPERATING A         FACILITY CALLED THE EAGLE-BUTTE MINE, HAS IMPROPERLY         DISPOSED OF APPROXIMATELY 6400 GALLONS OF WASTE OIL          CONTAMINATED WITH 1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE BY SHIPPING          MATERIAL IN FIVE SEPARATE SHIPMENTS TO TWO CEMENT KILNS,     SYSTECH AND ASH GROVE, LOCATED IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA        RESPECTIVELY.  THE KILNS USED THIS FUEL FOR THEIR            SUPPLEMENTAL FUELS PROGRAM (I.E. BURNED FOR ENERGY           RECOVERY).  THE PROPOSED PENALTY FOR THE 14 COUNTS IN THIS   COMPLAINT IS $80,650.

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