# AGCO CORP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57689`
- **Case Number:** HQ-2000-0020
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $43K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AGCO CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN DECEMBER, 1999, U.S. CUSTOMS (CUSTOMS) SEIZED 82 SUBJ ECT ENGINES AT THE BALTIMORE PORT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT CONTA IN THE EPA MANDATED LABEL AS SET FORTH IN 40 C.F.R.  89.110 -96.  IN JANUARY, 2000, CUSTOMS DETAINED TWO (2) SUBJECT ENG INES (NO. 83 AT THE HOUSTON PORT AND NO. 84 AT THE BALTIMORE  PORT), BECAUSE THEY, TOO, DID NOT CONTAIN THE EPA MANDATED  LABEL. RESPONDENT PROVIDED EVIDENCE OF EPA CERTIFICATION OF  THE SUBJECT ENGINES.  THEREFORE, EPA IMPOSED A FINE OF $500  PER IMPROPERLY LABELED ENGINE SEIZED AT THE BALTIMORE PORT,  AND $1,000 FOR THE IMPROPERLY LABELED ENGINE DETAINED AT THE  HOUSTON PORT, TOTALING $42,500.  AS A PART OF THE SETTLEMEN T IMPORTER HAS AGREED TO LOCATE AND INSPECT A RANDOM SAMPLE  CONSISTING OF AT LEAST 10% OF THE 13,000 ENGINES PREVIOUSLY  IMPORTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF DETERMINING WHETHER THE ENGINES  ARE CERTIFIED AND AN EPA EMISSION LABEL IS PRESENT, LEGIBLE , AND READILY VISIBLE. CASE CLOSED 1/11/02 (LB INFO TO JADAI R TO INVESTIGATE & RESOLVE VIOLS, IF ANY).

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