# C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2003 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `98255`
- **Case Number:** 03-2003-0278
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On June 25, 2003, EPA Region III issued an administrative complaint to C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. ( C&S ), seeking a total penalty of $30,251.00 for violations of Section 103 of CERCLA and Sections 304 and 311 of EPCRA.  C&S failed to notify the NRC and the SERC immediately following a release of approximately 407 pounds of ammonia from its facility in Aberdeen, Maryland on July 5, 2000.   Additionally, C&S failed to provide to the SERC an MSDS for ammonia, or a list identifying ammonia as present at its Aberdeen facility in a quantity greater than its minimum threshold for reporting. ORIGINAL PENALTY BREAKDOWN (19,938 (EPCRA) AND 10,313 (CERCLA

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