# FIKE CHEMICALS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Litigated No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9642`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0012
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COASTAL TANK LINES (complaint)
- FIKE CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

SUMMARY                                                           THIS LITIGATION INVLOVES THE PRESENCE OF 2, 3, 7, 8-    TCDD AT FIKE'S FAC IN NITRO, W.V., AND SPEC, TCDD SAMPLING   AND ANALYSIS ACTIVITIES.                                          ON 06/28/83, EPA SAMPLED AND FOUND TCDD AT FAC.  DEF    REJECTED PROPOSAL TO ENTER INTO CD WHCIH WOULD REQ SAMPLING  AND ANALYSIS.  REG ADMIN ISSUED ORDER DIRECTING DEF TO DO    SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS AND REPORT FINDINGS TO EPA.                 DEF SAID IT COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT COMPLY AND THAT ANY SAMPLING WOULD BE DONE BY EPA AT EPA EXPENSE UNDER TERMS OF  THE 1982 CD.  REG 03 DISAGREES.                                   DEF CONT TO REFUSE ACCESS TO FAC UNTIL EPA ADMITTED     9182 CD WAS IN DEF FAVOR.  USA FILED ORDER FOR ACCESS ON     04/18/84.  ON 06/12/84, SDWV JDG ISSUED ORDER GRANTING EPA   ACCESS.  AT PRESENT, SAMPLING IS BEING DONE BY REG 03 AND    IS EXPECTED TO BE CONL BY 06/29/84.  ANALYSIS RESULTS EXPECT ED W/IN MONTH.                                                    CASE REFERRED DUE TO AMT OF WORK NEC FOR PETITION FOR   AN IMMEDIATE ORDER IN AID OF ACCESS.

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