EPA FINES HERCULES AGAIN

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 23, 1993                   TAG: 9302230132
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-1   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: MICHAEL STOWE
DATELINE: FAIRLAWN                                LENGTH: Short
EPA FINES HERCULES AGAIN
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Hercules Inc. to pay $233,000 in penalties for violations of underground storage tank regulations at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
Nicole Kinser, public affairs officer for the arsenal, said Hercules plans to appeal the fine.
EPA officials could not be reached Monday, so few details of the violations were disclosed.
The EPA did instruct Hercules, which received notice of the fine on Jan. 26, to close the underground storage tanks, Kinser said. No enforcement action against the Army has been filed.
The EPA penalty was the third against Hercules in less than nine months.
On October Hercules was fined $165,500 for improper handling of asbestos material at the arsenal.
The company also received a $91,500 fine in August for failing to properly label, handle and store PCBs, highly carcinogenic solvents.
The EPA cited 23 violations involving the records, labeling and storing of polychlorinated biphenyls.
The arsenal uses PCB as an additive to make oil suitable for use at high temperatures.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB