# GEPPERT BROS. & LIBERTY SQUARE ASSOC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9654`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GEPPERT BROS., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- LIBERTY SQUARE ASSOCIATES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

=> GEPPERT BROS.,INC. IS A PRIVATELY HELD PENNA. CORP.  BUSINESS OPERATIONS CONSIST OF DEMOLITION CONTRACTING (50%), EQUIPMENT RENTALS (40%), AND EQUIPMENT HAULING (10%). THE    COMPANY EMPLOYS APPROXIMATELY 70 PERSONS.                         => LIBERTY SQUARE ASSOC. IS A CONN. LTD PARTNERSHIP. IT OWNS & IS RENOVATING THE BECK ENGRAVING BLDG IN PHILA.,PA    FOR GENERAL OFFICE USE. LIBERTY SQUARE CONTRACTED WITH       GEPPERT THROUGH ITS SUBSIDARY, LIBERTY REHAB CORP, FOR       REMOVAL OF ASBESTOS MATERIAL IN THE BECK ENGRV. BLDG.             => NEITHER GEPPERT OR LIBERTY SQUARE NOTIFIED EPA OR    THE CITY OF PHILA'S DEPT OF HEALTH AIR MGMT SERVICES OF THE  PLANNED REMOVAL & DEMOLITION PROJECT INVOLVING ASBESTOS,     DESPITE REPEATED WARNINGS FROM EPA & AIR MGMT SERVICES TO    DO SO. IN ADDITION, GEPPERT FAILED TO FOLLOW REQUIRED        WETTING PROCEDURES DURING THE ACTUAL ASBESTOS REMOVAL.            => GEPPERT'S FAILURE TO WET ASBESTOS HAS POTENTIAL      DIRECT HEALTH EFFECTS BECAUSE WETTING REDUCES THE LIKELIHOOD THAT ASBESTOS FIBRES WILL BECOME AIRBORNE DURING REMOVAL &   ESCAPE INTO THE ENVIRONMENT. IF THE FIBERS ESCAPE, THEY MAY  BE INHALED BY CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OR PASSERSBY. ASBESTOS IS A KNOWN CARCINOGEN. AT THE PRESENT TIME NO  SAFE  THRESHOLD  EXPOSURE LEVEL EXISTS.                                            => THE BLDG IS LOCATED IN A COMBINED TOURIST & BUSINESS AREA IN PHILA, ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE OFFICES OF REG III THE OPEN WINDOWS OF THE BLDG WERE DIRECTL

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