# BASF INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `6386`
- **Case Number:** 02-1998-0030
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- BASF INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT, ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF THE PCB REGULATIONS UNDER TSCA, WAS ISSUED AS A DECA LEAD CASE ON DECEMBER 30, 1997.  THIS COMPLAINT WAS BASED ON A    MULTI-MEDIA INSPECTION CONDUCTED AT THE FORMER INMONT LABOR- ATORY SITE IN HAWTHORNE, NJ, ON AUGUST 18, 1997.  BASF       FAILED TO MARK CONTAINERS OF PCB CONTAMINATED SOIL WITH THE  PCB MARK M(L), IMPROPERLY STORED THE PCB CONTAMINATED SOIL   FOR DISPOSAL, FAILED TO NOTIFY EPA OF PCB ACTIVITIES, AND,   IN THE PROCESS OF SENDING THE PCB CONTAMINATED SOIL FOR      DISPOSAL TO A PERMITTED DISPOSER, THEY FAILED TO PROVIDE THE  OUT-OF-SERVICE  DATE AND WEIGHT OF THE WASTE IN KILOGRAMS   ON THE MANIFESTS.  THE TOTAL PROPOSED PENALTY FOR THIS       COMPLAINT IS $73,700.

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