# ECD INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8235`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-0853
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ECD INC (settlement)
## Summary

ON JULY 12, 2001, ECD DISCLOSED TO EPA THAT IT HAD      DISCOVERED THAT TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY FORM R REPORTS FOR   NITRIC ACID, WATER DISSOCIABLE NITRATE COMPOUNDS AND ZINC    COMPOUNDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FROM 1997 TO 1999 AND   THAT THE REPORTS SUBMITTED FOR SULFURIC ACID, LEAD AND       HYDROCHLORIC ACID WERE SUBMITTED IN ERROR FROM 1997 TO 1999. THE COMPANY DID NOT MEET THE REPORTING THRESHOLD FOR LEAD    AND DID NOT MET THE  ACID AEROSOL  QUALIFIER FOR SULFURIC    ACID AND HYDROCHLORIC ACID.  ECD IS AWARE THAT UNDER THE NEW REPORTING THRESHOLD OF 100 LBS FOR LEAD THAT THEY WILL NEED  TO REPORT FOR THE 2001 REPORTING YEAR.  ADDITIONALLY, THE    COMPANY SUBMITTED 11 REVISED FORM R REPORTS FROM 97 TO 1999  FOR CHROMIUN, NICKEL, MANGANESE, AND AMMONIA.                ***                                                               THE ABOVE MENTIONED VIOLATIONS WERE DISCOVERED ON       JUNE 28, 2001 DURING PREPARATION OF THE COMPANY'S TRI FROM R SUBMISSIONS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2000, WHICH WERE PREPARED BY   ECD'S CONSULTANT, KILAM ASSOCIATES.  THE DISCLOSURE TO THE   EPA WAS MADE 14 DAYS AFTER DISCOVERY UNDER THE SMALL         BUSINESS POLICY.                                             *

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