# UNIVERSAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49167`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0179
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNIVERSAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/17/92:  IT WAS OBSERVED DURING AN INSPECTION ON OR      ABOUT 12/12/90 THAT THE RESPONDENT UNIVERSAL EQUIPMENT       COMPANY, OPERATING THE ATLANTIC CITY MINE, LOCATED 25 MILES  SOUTH OF LANDER, WYOMING, HAD FAILED TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF  FLUID CONTAINING A PCB CONCENTRATION OF OVER 50 PPM FROM     THREE LEAKING INERTEEN TRANSFORMERS, 455 GALLONS EACH, AT    THE BASEMENT SUBSTATION.  THE LEAKS FROM THE THREE           TRANSFORMERS EXTENDED BEYOND THE TRANSFORMERS TO THE         CONCRETE BELOW.  THEY ALSO FAILED TO INITIATE CLEAN UP FROM  THE ABOVE THREE LEAKS; FAILED TO REGISTER WITH FIRE RESPONSE PERSONNEL AS REQUIRED; FAILED TO PROPERLY MARK THREE PCB     TRANSFORMER LOCATIONS, AND FAILED TO MAINTAIN AN ANNUAL      DOCUMENT LOG OF THE DISPOSITION OF PCBS AND PCB ITEMS AT THE FACILITY FOR THE YEARS 1985 THROUGH 1989.

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