# NEPERA INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8234`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-0852
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NEPERA INC (settlement)
## Summary

ON JULY 10, 2001, NEPERA, DISCLOSED TO EPA THAT IT HAD DIS-  COVERED TWO RELEASE REPORTING ERRORS IN THE COURSE OF PRE-   PARING & REVIEWING THE DATA GENERATED FOR THE YR 2000 TOXIC  CHEMICALS RELEASE INVENTORY REPORT FORM R UNDER SECTION 313  OF THE EMERGENCY COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT OF 1986 (EPCRA) 42 U.S.C.  11001 ET SEQ.  FOR THE REPORTING YEAR 1998,      NEPERA MISTAKENLY USED AN INCORRECT EMISSION RATE FOR THE    INCINERATOR FOR 2-METHYL PYRIDINE RESULTING IN AN UNDER RE-  PORTING OF 74 POUNDS TO THE STACK EMISSION.  IN REPORTING    YEAR 1999, NEPERA MISTAKENLY FACTORED THE DESTRUCTION RATE   EFFICIENCY OF THE INCINERATOR FOR 2-METHYL PYRIDINE INTO THE RELEASE CALCULATION RESULTING IN AN UNDER REPORTING OF 124   POUNDS TO THE STACK EMISSION.  THE DATA QUALITY ERRORS ARE   MINOR IN NATURE REPRESENTING 21% OF THE TOTAL AIR EMISSIONS  OF 348 POUNDS OF 2-METHYL PYRIDINE IN 1998 AND 22% OF THE    TOTAL AIR EMISSIONS OF 575 POUNDS OF 2-METHYL PYRIDINE IN    1999.                                                        *

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