# BELL ATLANTIC - NEW JERSEY INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `7197`
- **Case Number:** 02-1999-9101
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PHINIZY, C. (complaint)
## Summary

THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT, ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF THE PCB REGULATIONS UNDER TSCA WAS ISSUED AS A DECA LEAD  CASE ON NOV. 27, 1998.  THIS COMPLAINT WAS BASED ON AN       INSPECTION CONDUCTED AT THE HQ OFFICE IN EPAST ORANGE, NJ,   ON JAN. 26, 1998.  BELL ATLANTIC SHIPPED LEAD BASED PAINT    CHIPS FROM A BUILDING IN TRENTON, NJ. TO A NON PCB DISPOSER, WHO DISCOVERED THE WASTE WAS CONTAMINATED WITH 2,000 5,000   PPM PCBS.  THE PROPOSED PENALTY FOR THIS COMPLAINT WAS       AGGRAVATED 50% DUE TO A HISTORY OF PAST VIOLATION.  THERE    WAS A PCB CASE DOCKET # PCB 94-0112, WITHIN THE LAST FIVE    YEARS, THAT CLOSED ON OCT. 20, 1994.  THE TOTAL PROPOSED     PENALTY FOR THIS COMPLAINT WAS $13,200.  A SETTLEMENT        CONFERENCE HAS BEEN SCHEDULED WITH DECA STAFF FOR            JAN. 14, 1999.

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