# BESST CHEMICALS CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8420`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-3405
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BESST CHEMICALS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

******                                                       BESST CHEMICAL CORP. FAILED TO SEEK NPDES PERMIT COVERAGE    FOR ITS FACILITY UNDER THE MSGP AND DISCHARGED STORM WATER   ASSOCIATED WITH INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES W/O AN NPDES PERMIT    FROM DEC. 30, 1998 UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2000.  A CLASS II CIVIL   PENALTY IS PROPOSED.                                         ******                                                       RESPONDENT ALLEGED INABILITY TO PAY PENALTY.  EPA REVIEWED   FINANCIAL DOCUMENT AND DETERMINED THAT RESPONDENT WAS IN     PRECARIOUS CONDITION AND COULD PAY THE CALCULATED ECONOMIC   BENEFIT.  RESPONDENT SETTLED FOR SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE          ECONOMIC BENEFIT.

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