# LAKE COUNTY LANDFILL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `51354`
- **Case Number:** 08-1999-0231
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $6K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LAKE COUNTY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 5/18/99, BETSY WAHL, AN AUTHORIZED INSPECTOR FOR EPA,     CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY AND FOUND   6 REFRIGERATORS WHOSE REFRIGERANT SYSTEM LINES WERE INTACT.  THE REFRIGERATORS HAD BEEN PARTIALLY CRUSHED IN PREPARATION  FOR RECYCLING.  NONE OF THE REFRIGRATORS HAD BEEN PREPARED   FOR RECYCLING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DISTRICT'S POLICY       REGARDING REMOVAL OF APPLIANCE REFRIGERANTS.  RESPONDENT IS  IN VIOLATION FOR FAILURE TO REMOVE ANY REMAINING REFRIGERANT FROM THE SIX SMALL APPLIANCES OR VERIFY THAT THE REFRIGERANT HAD BEEN EVACUATED FROM THOSE APPLICANCES PREVIOUSLY.  THE   PROPOSED PENALTY FOR THESE VIOLATIONS IS $36,000.

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