# FAIRFIELD TEXTILES CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `7331`
- **Case Number:** 02-2000-1259
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $16K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- FAIRFIELD TEXTILES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FAILURE TO KEEP PERCHLOROETHYLENE RECORDS AND FILE REPORTS   W/ EPA.  OPERATING A MAJOR SOURCE WITHOUT A TITLE V PERMIT.  **CCDS SUMMARY***                                            RESPONDENT FAILED TO SUBMIT A TIMELY APPLICATION FOR TITLE V PERMIT; FAILED TO FILE INITIAL NOTIFICATION AND TO OPERATE   DRY CLEANING EQUIPMENT WITHOUT A TITLE V PERMIT; FAILED TO   FILE COMPLIANCE STATUS NOTIFICATION W/EPA; FAILED TO PERFORM REQUIRED RECORDKEEPING; AND FAILED TO PROPERLY PERFORM RE-   QUIRED MONITORING, IN VIOLATION OF THE CAA.  RESPONDENT ALSO STORED SPENT PERCHLOROETHYLENE CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER AT    ITS FACILITY FOR GREATER THAN 90 DAYS WITHOUT HAVING OB-     TAINED A RCRA PERMIT, INTERIM STATUS OR AN EXTENSION TO THE  90-DAY STORAGE PERIOD; FAILED TO CONDUCT DAILY INSPECTIONS   OF THE TANK SYSTEMS WHERE IT WAS STORING PERCHLOROETHYLENE   CONTAMINATED WASTES; FAILED TO KEEP RECORDS DOCUMENTING IN-  SPECTIONS OF THE TANKS SYSTEMS; FAILED TO DEVELOP A CONTIN-  GENCY PLAN TO ADDRESS RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM THE   FACILITY; FAILED TO TRAIN ITS EMPLOYEES IN THE HANDLING OF   HAZARDOUS WASTES AT ITS FACILITY; FAILED TO DETERMINE THE    VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND CONTENT OF THE WASTES STORED IN    TANKS AT ITS FACILITY, IN VIOLATION OF THE RCRA.             ***                                                          THE SETTLEMENT WILL REQUIRE FAIRFIELD TO UNDERTAKE A NUMBER  OF REMEDIAL ACTIONS, INCLUDING: CESSATION OF USE OF PERCHLO- ROETHYLENE AS A DRY CLEANING AGENT; 

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