# RAYMARK CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `96`
- **Case Number:** 01-1985-0009
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $135K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RAYMARK CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ACTION SEEKS INJUNCTIVE RELIEF & CIVIL PENALTIES   AGAINST AN ASBESTOS MANUFACTURING FACILITY, RAYMARK INDUSTRI AL DIVISION, FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE NAT'L EMISSION STD FOR    ASBESTOS, FOUND AT 40 CFR PART 61 SUBPART M, WHICH OCCURRED  DURING THE MANUFACTURING & TRANSPORTING OF ASBESTOS-CONTAIN- ING MATERIALS.  RAYMARK INDUSTRIAL DIVISION IN STRATFORD, CT EMPLOYS 600 PEOPLE IN THE PROD'N OF BRAKE SHOES & SPECIALTY  PRODUCTS SUCH AS GASKETS & CLUTCH PADS, SOME OF WHICH CON-   TAIN ASBESTOS.  BETWEEN 1971 & JAN 1, 1984, RAYMARK CORP HAS BEEN A DEFENDANT OR CODEFENDANT IN 14,963 LAWSUITS ALLEGING  INJURY &/OR DEATH FROM EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS FIBERS IN THE    AIR.                                                              ON OCT 22, 1984, EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER A-  GAINST RAYMARK FOR RCRA VIOLATIONS.  RAYMARK SIGNED A CON-   SENT AGREEMENT W/EPA IN JUNE 1985, IN WHICH THEY AGREED TO   CORRECT THE RCRA VIOL'S & PAY A CIVIL PENALTY.  THE CONN DEP HAS FOUND RAYMARK IN VIOL OF STATE REGS 20 TIMES DURING THE  LAST 2 YRS.  NUMEROUS CITIZEN COMPLAINTS HAVE ALSO BEEN MADE TO EPA CONCERNING ODORS & PARTICULATE EMISSIONS COMING FROM  THE STRATFORD FACILITY.                                       VIOLATIONS:                                                      ON 3/7/84, 2 CT DEP INSPECTORS OBSERVED VISIBLE EMIS-   SIONS OF WHITE PARTICULATE MATERIALS INTO THE OUTSIDE AIR AT THE STRATFORD FACILITY.  THEY OBSERVED THAT THIS DUST ORIGI- NATED FROM A BAGHOUSE OR FABRIC FILTER WH

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