# DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2008 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600088325`
- **Case Number:** 04-2008-1507
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1/17/08 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $155,823, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS. FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS: EPA ALLEGES THAT BETWEEN DEC 2004 AND OCT 2005, RESPONDENT PURCHASED FOR RE-SALE APPROX 609,264 CANS OF CONFETTI STRONG PRODUCT KNOWN AS KRAZY STRING (CONFETTI STRING PRODUCT) THAT ORIGINATED IN TAIWAN, WHICH MAY HAVE CONTAINED A CLASS II SUBSTANCE. EPA ALLEGES THAT TO THE BEST OF RESPONDENT'S KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF, RESPONDENT CEASED SELLING ALL CONFETTI STRING PRODUCT ON OR ABOUT FEB 24, 2006, AFTER LEARING THAT THE CANS MANUFACTURING IN TAIWAN MAY CONTAIN ODS AS A PROPELLANT, AND INSTRUCTED STORE MANAGERS TO REMOVE ALL PRODUCT FROM EACH STORE'S SALES FLOORS. AN INVENTORY COUNT SHOWED THAT RESPONDENT HAD APPROX 175,000 CANS ON HAND AT THE TIME IT CEASED SELLING THE PRODUCT.

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