# ELEANOR ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50302`
- **Case Number:** 08-1995-0153
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ELEARNOR ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RAMP INDUSTRIES IS A PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED BUS-   INESS WHICH ACCEPTS RADIOACTIVE AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MIXED    WITH RADIONUCLIDE MATERIAL FOR TREATMENT AND TEMPORARY STOR- AGE.                                                             ON 8/31/94, RAMP'S ONLY LOCAL EMPLOYEE RESIGNED FROM HIS POSITION AS GENERAL MANAGER AND LEFT THE FACILITY.  AT THAT  POINT, THE FACILITY WAS ABANDONED AND UNSECURED AND CON-     TAINED BETWEEN 5000 AND 6000 DRUMS OF RADIOACTIVE AND MIXED  WASTES.  THE DRUMS ARE EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS AND ARE RUST- ING.  SAMPLES TAKEN FROM SOIL AND SEWERS ON THE SITE REVEAL  A PRESENCE OF RADIONUCLIDES AND ORGANIC SOLVENTS.  PASSERSBY WERE POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO ELEVATED LEVELS OF GAMMA RADIA-  TION.                                                            THE SITE IS LOCATED IN AN INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL     AREA.  THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 96,500 PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN   A 4 MILE RADIUS OF THE SITE.  SHOULD A FIRE BREAK OUT AMONG  THE 6000 PLUS DRUMS OF THESE WASTES,  AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVE   MATERIALS WOULD BE SPREAD OVER A LARGE AREA OF METRO DENVER.

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