# THATCHER COMPANY AKA THATCHER CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49413`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0508
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- THATCHER COMPANY AKA THATCHER CHEMICAL C (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DURING THE PERIOD FROM ABOUT 3:30 PM TO ABOUT 5:18 PM, ON    11/24/91, WHEN RESPONDENT WAS THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF THE   FACILITY, THERE WAS A RELEASE FROM THE FACILITY OF GREATER   THAN ONE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE, A QUANTITY       GREATER THAT THE REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF ONE POUND.           RESPONDENT DID NOT IMMEDIATELY PROVIDE NOTICE TO THE         EMERGENCY COORDINATOR OF THE SALT LAKE CITY LOCAL EMERGENCY  PLANNING COMMITTEE AFTER THE RELEASE; INSTEAD RESPONDENT     NOTIFIED THE SALT LAKE CITY LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING         COMMITTEE 25 MINUTES AFTER THE RELEASE BEGAN. THE TWO        COUNTS IN THIS COMPLAINT SEEK PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTIES IN    THE AMOUNT OF $33,250.

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