9/8/2011 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $375. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.
ORDER ALLEGES:
UPON INFORMATION AND BELIEF, MINERAL LIFE INT'L, INC., FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE INITIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FROM SEPTEMBER 13, 1999 (THE POINT AT WHICH THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS FIRST REQUIRED NOTIFICATION) UNITL MAY 2010. IN ACCORDANCE WITH 40 C.F.R. SECTION 59.408(b), NOTICE WAS DUE TO EPA BY MINERAL LIFE INT'L, INC., ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 13, 1999, SINCE MINERAL LIFE INT'L, INC., WAS IN EXISTENCE AND MANUFACTURING ARCHITECTURAL COATINGS PRIOR TO THIS DATE. THEREFORE, MINERAL LIFE INT'L., INC., VIOLATED THE INITIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS AT 40 C.F.R. SECTION 59.408.
ON OR ABOUT MAY 3, 2010, IN RESPONSE TO AN INFORMATION REQUEST LETTER SENT BY EPA PURSUANT TO SECTION 114 OF THE ACT, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 7414, MINERAL LIFE INT'L, INC., PROVIDED EPA WITH THE INITIAL NOTIFICATION REQUEST.