# NORTHAMPTON DEVELOPMENT, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `98`
- **Case Number:** 01-1985-0012
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $40K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MAJESTIC, INC.
- NORTHAMPTON DEVELOPMENT, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REGION I SEEKS INJUNCTIVE RELIEF & CIVIL PENALTIES      AGAINST A PAINTING CONTRACTOR (MAJESTIC, INC.) & A REAL ES-  TATE DEVELOPER (NORTHAMPTON DEVELOPMENT, INC.) FOR VIOLA-    TIONS OF THE NATIONAL EMISSION STD FOR ASBESTOS, FOUND AT    40 CFR PART 61, SUBMPART M, WHICH OCCURRED DURING RENOVATION OF A FORMER SCHOOL DORMITORY THAT WAS BEING CONVERTED INTO   CONDOMINIUMS.  THE DEFENDANTS FAILED TO NOTIFY EPA OF THEIR  INTENT TO RENOVATE THE BUILDING PRIOR TO THE RENOVATION &    FAILED TO COMPLY W/SPECIFIED WORK PRACTICE STDS PROMULGATED  BY EPA UNDER SECT 112 OF THE CAA, 42 USC 7412, & ENFORCED    UNDER SECT 113, 42 USC 7413.                                 DEFENDANTS:                                                       NORTHAMPTON DEVELOPMENT, INC. IS THE OWNER OF THE RENO- VATION SITE, MAGNA HOUSE, WHICH IS LOCATED IN A RESIDENTIAL  NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CLARK SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CAMPUS & SE-   VERAL BLOCKS FROM THE SMITH COLLEGE CAMPUS.  MAJESTIC, INC.  REMOVED ASBESTOS FROM PIPES AT THE SITE.  INITIALLY, MAJES-  TIC WAS HIRED AS A PAINTING CONTRACTOR, BUT LATER ENTERED    INTO AN ORAL AGREEMENT W/NORTHAMPTON DEVELOPMENT IN WHICH    MAJESTIC COMMITTED TO REMOVE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING INSULATION  FROM PIPES IN THE BUILDING.  ( A DEQE ENGINEER WHO INSPECTED THE BUILDING ESTIMATED THAT PIPES WERE COVERED W/2000 LINEAR FT OF FRIABLE ASBESTOS-CONTAINING INSULATION.)               VIOLATIONS:                                                       SOME TIME PRIOR TO MAY 2, 1985, MAJE

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