EPA v. CORRIDOR PROPERTY

Case summary

On October 19, 2021, Region 1 entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order with Corridor Property Management, LLC (Corridor) and Coach Lantern Apartments, LLC (Coach Lantern) to settle alleged violations of the Renovation, Repair and Painting and Lead Disclosure Rules. The CAFO alleges that Respondent Corridor performed renovations without EPA firm certification and failed to ensure that all individuals performing renovations were certified at its townhomes in Mansfield, Connecticut. As a large property owner, Corridor was investigated as part of EPA Region 1's Lead Geographic Initiative. Additionally, the CAFO alleges that Respondents Coach and Corridor failed to provide all available records or reports pertaining to lead-based paint and/or lead-based paint hazards to a lessee before the lessee entered a lease contract and failed to attach or include a complete list of the available records in the lease contract relevant to two apartments owned and managed by Respondents in Scarborough, Maine. The Maine apartments relevant to the Disclosure Rule violations had child occupants under six years of age at the time of the lease transactions. Corridor manages multiple rental properties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Florida and Kansas. Respondents will pay a total penalty of $38,185. By encouraging compliance in the regulated community, the settlement will help to ensure that potential lessees are able to take into consideration the existence of lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards in rental housing before renting the property and will also ensure that firms and renovators have proper certification prior to renovating pre-1978 housing. The apartments in Maine are not located in an area of EJ concern, but the townhomes in Connecticut are located in an area of EJ concern.

Defendants (2)

• Coach Lantern Apartments, MENamed in complaintNamed in settlement
• Corridor Property Management LLC, CTNamed in complaintNamed in settlement

Facilities (1)

• CORRIDOR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC

  20 AVON MEADOW LANE, AVON, CT, 06001

  Registry ID: 110070874096

Statutes cited

• TSCA 406B — Lead: Pre-Renovation Education Rule
• TSCA 402C — Lead: RRP

Enforcement conclusions (1)

• CORRIDOR PROPERTYentered 2021-10-19

  Primary law: TSCA

  Federal penalty: $38,185

Timeline (3 milestones)

• 2021-10-19Final Order Issued
• 2021-10-19Complaint Filed/Proposed Order
• 2021-12-03Enforcement Action Data Entered