# HATCO INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `6383`
- **Case Number:** 02-1998-0027
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $28K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $6K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- HATCO INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

A DATA QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED AT    HATCO CORPORATION, LOCATED AT 1020 KING GEORGE POST ROAD IN  FORDS, NEW JERSEY, AS PART OF REGION II'S CONSOLIDATED       MULTI-MEDIA INSPECTION TARGETING SCHEME.  THE INSPECTION     FOCUSED ON THE 28 FORM R SUBMISSIONS MADE BY HATCO INCOR-    PORATED FROM 1987 TO 1995.  HATCO MANUFACTURES FINE ORGANIC  CHEMICALS, PHOSGENATED AND SPECIALTY INTERMEDIATES FOR THE   PHARMACEUTICAL AND FOOD INDUSTRY.                                 AS A RESULT OF THE INSPECTION IT APPEARED THAT HATCO    CORPORATION PROCESSED GREATER THAN 25,000 POUNDS OF          BISPHENYL A IN REPORTING YEARS 1992, 1993, AND 1995, AND     FAILED TO FILE THE APPROPRIATE FORMS R UNDER SECTION 313 OF  THE EMERGENCY COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT.  AN ADMINISTRA-   TIVE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED DECEMBER 30, 1997, AS A DECA LEAD  ACTION TO ADDRESS THESE VIOLATIONS.  THE PROPOSED PENALTY    WAS $46,088.  THE FACILITY HAS ALREADY FILED THE REQUESTED   FORM RS AND HAS COME INTO COMPLIANCE FOR THE VIOLATIONS      CITED IN THE ABOVE PROPOSED COMPLAINT.  SETTLEMENT           NEGOTIATIONS ARE PENDING.

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