# POTLATCH CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `54266`
- **Case Number:** 10-1991-0129
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $634K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OLSHAN ASBESTOS REMOVAL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
- PACIFIC MECHANICAL INSULATORS INC (complaint) (settlement)
- POTLATCH 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, M PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SECTION 112 OF CAA, 42 USC     7412.                                                          BETWEEN 7/20/89 AND 2/1/90 AN ASBESTOS ABATEMENT           PROJECT/MODERNIZATION PROJECT WAS CONDUCTED AT THE POTLATCH  CORP PULP AND PAPER MILL IN LEWISTON, ID.  THE PROJECT       CONSISTED OF DEMOLITION OF SEVERAL BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED  ASBESTOS REMOVAL ACTIVITIES.  VIOLATIONS OF NESHAPS FOR      ASBESTOS OCCURRED DURING THE PROJECT.                          POTLATCH HIRED OLSHAN ASBESTOS REMOVAL CORP AS THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR IN THE ABATEMENT PORTION OF THE PROJECT.  OLSHAN  SUBCONTRACTED THE ACTUAL ASBESTOS ABATEMENT TO PACIFIC       MECHANICAL INSULATION.  THIS REFERRAL RECOMMENDS NAMING ALL  THREE COMPANIES AS DEFENDANTS.                                 AN EPA INSPECTOR INSPECTED THE FACILITY ON 6/13/89 PRIOR   TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE ABATEMENT PROJECT, AND ON 10/5/89 DURING THE PROJECT.  NOTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT WAS         RECEIVED IN THE EPA IDAHO OPERATIONS OFFICE ON 8/10/89, 21   DAYS AFTER THE PROJECT HAD ACTUALLY BEGUN.  EPA CIVIL        INVESTIGATORS INTERVIEWED A NUMBER OF THE ASBESTOS WORKERS   DURING 7/90 AND 8/90.                                          DURING HIS 10/5/89 INSPECTION, THE EPA INSPECTOR OBSERVED  APPARENT VIOLATIONS OF THE WORK PRACTI

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