# FAIRFIELD TEXTILES CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `7561`
- **Case Number:** 02-2000-7110
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $24K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- FAIRFIELD TEXTILES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GREATER THAN 90-DAY STORAGE; NO TANK INSPECTIONS; INADEQUATE CONTINGENCY PLAN, PERSONNEL TRAINING, DOCUMENTATION; FAILURE TO MAKE WASTE DETERMINATION; FAILURE TO MAKE VO CONC. DETER- MINATION; AND FAILURE TO CONTROL AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS.                   CCDS - CASE SUMMARY                                RESPONDENT STORED SPENT PERCHLORETHYLENE CONTAMINATED   WASTEWATER AT ITS FACILITY FOR GREATER THAN 90 DAYS WITHOUT  HAVING OBTAINED A RCRA PERMIT, INTERIM STATUS OR AN EXTEN-   SION TO THE 90-DAY STORAGE PERIOD; FAILED TO CONDUCT DAILY   INSPECTIONS OF THE TANK SYSTEMS WHERE IT WAS STORING PERCH-  LOROETHYLENE CONTAMINATED WAST; FAILED TO KEEP RECORDS       DOCUMENTING INSPECTIONS OF THE TANKS SYSTEMS; FAILED TO      DEVELOP A CONTINGENCY PLAN TO ADDRESS RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS  WASTES AT ITS FACILITY; FAILED TO DETERMINE THE VOLATILE     ORGANIC COMPOUND COTENT OF THE WASTES STORED IN TANKS AT ITS FACILITY, IN VIOLATION OF RCRA.                                   THE SETTLEMENT WILL REQUIRE FAIRFIELD TO UNDERTAKE A    NUMBER OF REMEDIA ACTIONS, INCLUDING: CESSATION OF USE OF    PERCHLOROETHYLENE AS A DRY CLEANING AGENT; CESSATION OF      PURCHASES OF PERCHLORETHYLENE FOR USE IN ITS DRY CLEANING    EQUIPMENT; DECONTAMINATION OF ALL EQUIPMENT AT THE FACILITY  THAT HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH PERCHLORETHYLENE; TESTING OF ALL WASTES GENERATED THROUGH THE DECONTAMINATION PROCESS AND SHIPMENT OF THE WASTES TO AN APPROPRIATE DISPOSAL FACILITY.  *

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