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Phillips Law Firm, Inc.
9521 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati, OHÂ 45242
Phone: (513) 985-2500
Toll Free: (888) 883-2600
Fax: (513) 985-2503
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You own and operate Independent Plating, Inc.("IPI"), in Cincinnati, Ohio. Your company
is small, and you have been very diligent at complying with the environmental laws.
Through your cooperation with the local sewer district, Ohio EPA and U.S. EPA, you
are in full compliance with...
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Your father founded a company in 1958 called Old Painters, Inc. From 1965 to 1976,
Old Painters, Inc. disposed of hazardous waste from its paint plant in a lagoon located
on the company property in Anytown, New York. In 1986, your father retired, and you...
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You own Neighbors' Heat Treating, Inc. ("Neighbors") just outside of New York City.
Your property consists of about 0.8 acres, is zoned industrial, and includes a 9,500
square-foot single-story building. Neighbors is in the business of heat-treating metal
objects and ball bearings to harden them...
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You are the plant manager of Coaters and Platers, Inc. Your company recently acquired
six acres of a fifty acre industrial site next to your current location for the construction
of a new warehouse and parking lot. During the initial excavation of the acquired
property,...
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Employers have been known to ask employees to violate environmental laws. Sometimes,
the request occurs because of an honest misunderstanding of the law and should be
considered an innocent mistake. Less scrupulous employers have been known to ask employees
to perform an activity that is...
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You are the owner of Chromers and Platers, Inc., a business that you started thirty
years ago and have grown to employ sixty people on a full time basis. You have diligently
tried to comply with the environmental laws over the years, but with the myriad...
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You own and operate Ace Plating and Painting, Inc. Your company specializes in coating
materials for the secondary automotive parts market. You rechrome bumpers and grills,
and strip and paint body parts for antique cars. You have been operating the business...
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Your company, Deep Dutch Metal Finishing Company ("Deep Dutch") operates an electroplating
operation in Deep Dutch, Illinois. Deep Dutch's electroplating operation generates
wastewater that is treated before discharging into the Publicly Owned Treatment Works,
the "sewer system." Your company has operated at its current location...
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You are the President and owner of Barrel Finisher's Inc., a drum recycling company.
Your company has been operating at the same location since World War II. Your company
receives metal 55-gallon drums from companies, removes the contents left in the drum
and then paints...
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You are the owner of Acme Metal Coating, Inc., a metal coating plant. A river runs
next to your plant into which you discharge your treated wastewater. You are very
conscientious about your waste water discharge and have put a lot of money into wastewater...
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The 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA), including the title V operating permits
program, have made source status as a "major source" of considerably greater relevance
to facilities that emit regulated pollutants. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments significantly
lowered the threshold for...
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You are the president of Poly Painters, Inc., a polymer based metal coating facility.
Your facility generates approximately two thousand kilograms of hazardous waste per
month that you properly handle and send out for disposal. Your business operates profitably,
but as with so many industries,...
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You are the owner of Multi-Step Platers of Ohio, Inc. Your business has several plating
lines where it processes materials. Three of the plating lines are in one building,
and one of the plating lines is three miles away at another facility. Your company
generates...
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You are starting your own business, Tinters, Inc. Your new business will specialize
in tinting various metals, plastics and ceramics for other industries. Your process
involves the application of various tints to achieve custom color combinations. You
have secured several contracts for your services. With...
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You are the plant manager of Widgets, Inc. Your company produces painted widgets in
a patented two step process. The first step produces the widget and the second step
paints it. Producing the widget generates a dry solid waste which looks a lot like
sand....
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After years of saving your hard earned cash, you finally achieved one of the great
American dreams; you bought your own business. With your experience in the metal finishing
industry, you financed and purchased a business called Platers and Coaters. Platers
and Coaters has been...
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In the February 1996, edition of Metal Finishing, I wrote an article entitled
"A Good Side of RCRA." On March 19, 1996, the Supreme Court of the United States published
an opinion on RCRA cleanups that could change the way companies and their attorneys
approach...
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After years of saving your hard earned cash, you finally achieved one of the great
American dreams; you bought your own business. With your experience in the metal finishing
industry, you financed and purchased a business called Platers and Coaters. Platers
and Coaters has been...
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Your company, Heavy Metal Plating, Inc., operates the Old Alabama Plating Facility.
a hard chromium plating plant in Alabama. The prior owner of the plant, Dirty Operators,
Inc., operated the Old Alabama Plating Facility as a hard chrome plating facility
from 1905 until 1978. In...
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You are the owner of Metal Painters, Inc. Like most metal finishing companies, you
use solvents in your operations for cleaning certain metal parts prior to coating.
Thomas Solvent, a producer and seller of solvents, sold virgin solvents to numerous
customers, including your company from...
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Your company, Silvers, Inc. formerly operated a silver plating facility in Anytown,
USA. Your company sold the plant to Chromers, Inc. in 1978. Chromers, Inc. used the
facility exclusively for chrome plating. In 1990, a citizen in your community complained
to...
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You are the president and majority shareholder of Painters, Inc., a custom painting
company. You started the company in your garage, and quickly relocated to a larger
facility where you accept work from manufacturers for custom paint finishing. Because
of the continued success of your...
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Your grandfather started a family business almost 80 years ago called Coaters, Inc.
Although much more automated and modernized, the company still manufactures the same
products, using the same chemicals as when your grandfather founded the company. Forty
years ago, your father inherited the business...
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Your father and mother were the owners of Trusted Plating. Trusted Plating has been
operating as a plating company since the 1940's. Trusted Plating has never been a
major company, but it has provided your parents with a comfortable living, and it
put you through...
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In 1975, your company, Wishful Platers, Inc. bought a two hundred acre parcel of industrial
property on which you hoped to place a new factory someday. In 1985, Wishful Platers
sold the property to Anchor Corporation. Although you had hoped to develop the property,
in...
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You are the owner and founder of Clean Platers, Inc. You recently moved the company
location to a twelve-acre parcel of ground that you purchased in 1993. You formerly
operated the company on an eight-acre parcel of land purchased from a company...
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Prior to 1986, your company, Southern Platers, Incorporated (Southern) operated a
chrome plating facility in Tampa, Florida. You used tetrachloroethylene, commonly
referred to as perchlorethylene or "perc" as a solvent to degrease parts at your facility
before switching to unchlorinated solvents. The main perc supply...
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You are the Plant Manager for Coaters, Inc., an Ohio Corporation. Founded in 1963,
your company prepares and coats a variety industrial equipment for its customers.
Your operation uses different preparation techniques before coating depending on the
particular coating application. Some equipment is sand blasted...
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You are the owner of a widget assembly plant called Nopaint Inc. Your facility exists
in Ohio, but does business with manufacturers all over the United States. Your plant
receives premanufactured parts from around the country and assembles the parts into...
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