# TRIDENT SEAFOODS CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54184`
- **Case Number:** 10-1990-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HINTON, JAMES (complaint) (settlement)
- STAKKELAND, TOM (complaint) (settlement)
- TRIDENT SEAFOODS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL INVOLVES THE FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION TO     SEEK PENALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE   WORK PRACTICE STANDARDS SET FORTH IN NESHAPS, 40 CFR, PART   61, SUBPART M.                                                 THE VIOLATIONS ALLEGED ARE BASED ON A RENOVATION PROJECT   CONDUCTED AT THE TRIDENT SEAFOODS' FACILITY IN ANACORTES, WA THAT INVOLVED THE STRIPPING AND REMOVAL OF AT LEAST 3240 SQ  FEET AND 104 LINEAR FEET OF FRIABLE ASBESTOS.                  THE ASBESTOS ABATEMENT PROJECT IN QUESTION WAS STARTED ON  OR ABOUT 8/27/88 AND WAS COMPLETED ON OR ABOUT 9/2/88.       DURING THIS TIME FRIABLE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MATERIALS WERE  STRIPPED AND REMOVED FROM 9 RETORTS AND VARIOUS PIPES IN 2   BUILDINGS ON THE FACILITY GROUNDS.  CERTAIN PIPES AND THE 9  RETORTS WERE DISMANTLED, AND THE RETORTS WERE MOVED OUTSIDE. NO WRITTEN NOTIFICATION WAS GIVEN TO EITHER THE EPA OR THE   NORTHWEST AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY PRIOR TO COMMENCING   THE RENOVATION.                                                WHILE WATER WAS APPARENTLY USED DURING THE REMOVAL OF THE  ASBESTOS, A MONTH AFTER THE ABATEMENT WAS SUPPOSEDLY         COMPLETED LARGE QUANTITIES OF DRY, FRIABLE ASBESTOS-         CONTAINING MATERIAL WAS ALSO FOUND AT THAT TIME ON AND       BENEATH RETORTS THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM THE WAREHOUSE TO  LOCATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDINGS.                            THE BUILDING HOLDING THE RETORTS IS SUPPORTED BY A PIER    OVER THE GUEMES CHANNEL WATERWAY.  DUR

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