United States Environmental Protection Agency | The U.S. EPA has announced a settlement agreement with Konover Residential Corporation, resolving alleged violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act.
The alleged violations involve the company’s failure to provide required lead-based paint disclosures to tenants for 11 apartment units at the mixed-use Cargill Falls Mill property in Putnam, Connecticut.
Following resident complaint submissions, EPA conducted a TSCA lead-based paint inspection at Cargill Falls Mill of Konover, the property management company at the time of the inspection. The following alleged Lead Disclosure Rule violations were identified with respect to the leases for 11 units:
- Failure to provide tenants with the required EPA lead hazard information pamphlet.
- Failure to include the required lead warning statement in the lease.
- Failure to disclose known information about lead-based paint or lead hazards to tenants, or indicate no knowledge of such information.
- Failure to provide available records or reports about lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards, or indicate that no such records are available.
In addition, EPA determined children were living in the apartments where the alleged violations occurred.
Under the settlement agreement, Konover agrees to pay a penalty of $359,069 and to operate in compliance with federal lead paint disclosure regulations. To remain in compliance, Konover must:
- Provide lessees with an EPA-approved lead hazard information pamphlet, attach the Lead Warning Statement to every lease agreement, disclose any known lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards (or indicate no such knowledge).
- Provide all available records and reports related to lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards for the target housing with each lease or indicate no such records are available.
