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IN THE MATTER OF: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION FAA No. TBD COMPLAINANT,
v. FDMS NO
. FAA-2011-0488 COVERMARK USA, RESPONDENT. Thursday, January 17, 2013 Via Teleconference The above-entitled matter came on

.for hearing, pursuant to notice, at 1:30 p.m.

BEFORE:

(202) 234-4433 THE HONORABLE J.E. SULLIVAN, U.S. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE

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• APPEARANCES: On Behalf of the Complainant: GERALD A. ELLIS, ESQ. of: Office of the Regional Counsel, AS0-7 Southern Region Federal Aviation Administration P.O. Box 20636 Atlanta, Georgia 30320 (404) 305-5200 On Behalf of the Respondent: of: KEITH ROBERTS, ESQ. Roberts Proprietaries, Inc. 180 West 80th Street New York, New York 10024 (917) 441-8642 ALSO PRESENT: CODY L. SMITH

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 4 We're on the record in the matter of Covermark 5 

### USA. This is Docket Number FAA-2011-0488. 6 Today is Thursday, January 17, 2013. 7 And the parties have appeared for 8 final oral arguments on this matter. 9 

### The record reflects that the 10 parties previously appeared on December 11, 11 2012 for oral argument by telephone on the 12 FAA's motion for summary judgment. An order 13 denying summary judgment was issued on 14 December 13, 2012, which also granted the 15 parties' joint motion for a decision on the 16 written record and set this particular 17 conference time up. 18 The FAA is represented by its 19 attorney of record, Gerald A. Ellis, who's 20 present by telephone. The Respondent is 21 representedbyMr. Keith Roberts, the attorney 22 

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### 1 the Office of Hearings, sitting in as an 2 observer only is Cody L. Smith, attorney 3 advisor with this office. 4 Good afternoon, Counsel. 5 

### MR. ROBERTS: Good afternoon. 6 

### MR. ELLIS: Good afternoon. 7 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Let's talk 8 about some preliminary matters before we jump 9 into anything substantive. As I understand it 10

-- and I'm going to address this first to Mr. 11 Ellis and then to Mr. Roberts

-- essentially 12 the parties agreed on December 11, 2012 that 13 all of the exhibits that had been originally 14 submitted with the FAA's motion for summary 15 judgment, those being Exhibits 1 through 3, 16 andmore specifically identifiedby this Court 17 in the December 13, 2012 order denying summary 18 judgment, would be resubmitted by the parties 19 for a decision on the written record. 20 And is that your understanding, 21 Mr. Ellis? 22 MR. ELLIS: Yes. That there's no
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### 1 further documentation to be submitted. 2 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Mr. 3 Roberts, is that also your understanding? 4 

### MR. ROBERTS: Yes, it is. 5 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Let 6 me just talk a little bit about something that 7 I think might need to be added. And, in the 8 parties' argument at the December 11, 2012 9 motion for summary judgment there was a 10 tremendous amount of argument regarding how 11 the FAA had originally assessed the penalty of 12 $63,000 and then reduced it to $10,000. 13 And I looked through the entire 14 file. And I actually don't have the actual 15 penalty determination that the FAA submitted 16 to the Respondent and upon which all of these 17 

### arguments are based. And I'm wondering if 18 that was simply an oversight. I want to make 19 sure that I have all of the information that 20 I need in order to make a final decision. 21 Mr. Ellis, I presume this was 22 

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### MR. ELLIS: Are you asking for a 2 document, Your Honor? 3 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes, I'm 4 asking

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### MR. ELLIS: Or are you asking for 6 an explanation of how the penalty was derived? 7 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: No, I'm 8 asking if you actually submitted the penalty 9 determination upon which you're basing all of 10 the arguments to Mr. Roberts, and whether or 11 not you're planning, or had intended to have 12 submitted it to this decision-maker. 13 MR. ELLIS: I'm not quite sure I 14 know what you're talking about, Your Honor. 15 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Really? 16 Well, let me try and ask it a different way. 17 Let's look at the Claimant's motion for a 18 decision, which was filed with this office on 19 October 31, 2012. And upon which the FAA 20 basically relied upon to argue in the motion 21 before the Court on December 11th. 22 You talked a great deal about
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### 1 this. And I'm going to go to page 3 of the 2 

### motion. How you were seeking a $10,000 3 penalty, that the amount was decreased from 4 the original amount of 63,000 to give 5 consideration to various Respondent factors. 6 And then you went into the statutory factors 7 present in the federal Hazardous Materials 8 

### Transportation Statute. You did some 9 discussion in Subsection A through D, as in 10 David, about the way that the FAA uses the 11 policies and the matrix, essentially, to 12 

### consider various culpability, the degree of 13 culpability, the weight of culpability, and so 14 forth. And then you talked about the matrix, 15 the penalty matrix, which the FAA typically 16 uses in reaching a civil penalty. So that's 17 what I'm talking about. 18 I'm wondering if that material was 19 actually exchanged and if there's an omission 20 by not presenting it to me? 21 

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1 is from FAA Order 2150.3B Appendix C was 2 exchanged between the parties, Your Honor. 3 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. It 4 never reached my file. 5 MR. ELLIS: It was exchanged 6 between the parties. It wasn't given to you. 7 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 8 MR. ELLIS: You can take judicial 9 notice of it, however, since it is an FAA 10 order. 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, it's 12 hard for me to take a judicial notice of an 13 order I've never seen if you've inputted data 14 into it. 15 MR. ELLIS: If I've inputted data 16 into it? I wouldn't have inputted any data 17 into it, Your Honor. 18 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 19 MR. ELLIS: The order simply shows 20 how the FAA calculates civil penalties. In 21 each

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-- particular case you 2 would have to demonstrate how you followed 3 that order, which is what I did in the 4 Complainant's motion for a decision. 5 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 6 that's an argument. 7 

### MR. ELLIS: Yes, it is. 8 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 9 in order for me to make a finding that you've 10 made a prima facie case on the civil penalty 11 I have to have supportive facts
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### MR. ELLIS: Well, the facts that 20 drive the penalty, Your Honor, would be in the 21 complaint. 22 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: But the
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### MR. ELLIS: Are you saying the complaint 3 is not in evidence and the facts have not been 4 admitted into evidence? 5 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm saying 6 that I need some factual evidence as opposed 7 to an accusation. And I looked at this file, 8 and I looked through the entire file that I 9 have, and I thought, perhaps, that this was 10 simply an omission. 11 

### MR. ELLIS: It's not an omission, 12 

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Not an 14 omission. 15 MR. ROBERTS: Your Honor

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### MR. ELLIS: I've been doing this 17 for 15 years and I've done it the same way all 18 of those years. 19 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: And so 20 have

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### MR. ROBERTS: Your Honor, may I 22 

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1 penalty was $63,000, that it was then reduced 2 to $10,000, and that you are not objecting or 3 arguing as to any and all of the factors 4 utilized by the FAA from, in its penalty 5 determination calculation? That essentially, 6 the issue is solely limited to how to go about 7 looking at the Respondent's evidence regarding 8 ability to pay 9 MR. ROBERTS: How to evaluate 10 that, yes 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: 12 continue in business and whether or not 13 remedial actions were properly taken into 14 account? 15 MR. ROBERTS: I think we are 16 willing to admit that, yes. 17 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Mr. 18 Ellis, do you have any objection to the 19 proposed stipulation proffered by the 20 Respondent? 21 MR. ELLIS: No, Your Honor. 22 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay.
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1 Would you agree to that stipulation? 2 MR. ELLIS: That he has no 3 objection to the arguments presented in the 4 motion? 5 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: No, what 6 I'm trying to make sure that I have is either 7 factual evidence or a stipulation by the 8 parties that the FAA has submitted factual 9 evidence to support a prima facie case in the 10 civil penalty proceeding. 11 We have, essentially, a whole 12 bunch of arguments by both parties in terms of 13 motion and by oral argument about the penalty. 14 But what's missing from the file is the 15 factual evidence about what the penalty is, 16 originally, and about what the penalty was, 17 ultimately, that puts the decision at my door 18 regarding the $10,000 19 MR. ELLIS: Oh, you're talking 20 about the $63,000 original amount versus the 21 $10,000 amount proposed in the complaint? 22 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm
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### 1 talking about factual evidence that basically 2 gives me the groundwork to say that, "This is 3 the fact. Here are factual pieces of material 4 that are testimonial or documentary in nature 5 that build the case for the FAA's prima facie 6 evidence. " 7 

### Right now, I have an absence of 8 actual testimonial or documentary evidence in 9 the file that supports the prima facie case. 10 And I think it's because everybody basically 11 agreed that the FAA had engaged in a series of 12 steps that they normally engage in that were 13 not arbitrary to reach, first, a penalty 14 assessment of $63,000 and then reduced that 15 penalty down to a $10,000 amount. 16 Typically and I know, Mr. 17 Ellis, that you've done this for a very long 18 time and that you are surprised to hear this 19 Court talk about this

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1 And when I looked through this 2 file I thought, oh my goodness, it's something 3 that I need to clarify with the parties and 4 take care of so that the appellate record is 5 correct. 6 MR. ELLIS: And what is your 7 question, Your Honor? 8 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: My 9 question is, is the FAA willing to stipulate 10 with the Respondent that the FAA engaged in a 11 formula penalty determination which originally 12 assessed or found that $63,000 potentially be 13 owing by the Respondent for the 19 violations 14 that it accused the Respondent of in its 15 notice of complaint, that that penalty 16 determination utilized the sanction guidance 17 matrix that is published and available for 18 parties to take a look at, that in looking at 19 the penalties and the'factors that are talked 20 about in the sanction guidance matrix, the FAA 21 then reduced the overall penalty from 63,000 22 to $10,000 after considering various
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### MR. ELLIS: Well, we certainly 13 agree to the stipulation regarding how the 14 penalty was calculated. 15 You said there were three matters 16 that we're going to discuss today. I heard 17 the first one, which was the evidence, that is 18 Respondent's evidence, regarding its ability 19 to pay argument, and the remedial action 20 issue. What was the third issue? 21 

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1 judgment motion on December 11, 2012. There 2 was a dispute between the parties regarding 3 whether or not the Respondent had the ability 4 to pay and/or to continue in business if a 5 $10,000 penalty was assessed. And whether or 6 not the Respondent's remedial actions should 7 be further taken into account for potentially 8 reducing the $10,000 penalty. 9 MR. ELLIS: Okay. I hear two 10 issues, not three. 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, let 12 me ask you what it is that you've heard and 13 can you tell me what you think the issues are? 14 MR. ELLIS: Yes. I believe the 15 dispute is in regard to Respondent's 16 affirmative defense. That is, its ability to 17 pay, whether the evidence that he, that the 18 Respondent has presented supports his ability 19 to pay argument. 20 And the second issue was regarding 21 the remedial action that the Respondent did in 22 response to the hazardous materials
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### MR. ELLIS: Correct, Your Honor. 16 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm sorry? 17 

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Mr. 3 Roberts, would you agree that those issues, as 4 identified by the Court and Mr. Ellis, are the 5 issues before the Court today? 6 

### MR. ROBERTS: Yes. 7 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 8 And, Mr. Ellis, as I understand it, it looks 9 like we have an agreement regarding the 10 stipulation regarding the FAA's prima facie 11 case in terms of factual stipulation? 12 MR. ELLIS: I have to say, yes. 13 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 14 then we also have an agreement, at least, or 15 a statement from both parties that the FAA's 16 

### Exhibits 1 through 3, as utilized and 17 proffered by the parties for the December 11, 18 2012 argument, are re-profferedby the parties 19 by stipulation as evidenced today in this 20 proceeding. 21 Let's talk about the arguments 22 

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### 1 discussed orally on December 11, 2012. There 2 is a transcript that was filed from that 3 

### December 11, 2012 argument. And of course, 4 the parties exchanged the motions and the 5 

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 9 just so you know, the evidence is different 10 from the motions that were made in writing and 11 

### the oral argument. So the evidence is the 12 stipulation by the parties that just was 13 entered into a little earlier this afternoon, 14 and the Exhibits 1 through 3. 15 What I'm saying is that instead of 16 going through and making all the same 17 arguments orally to the Court today, I'm 18 asking if you feel comfortable with all of the 19 written arguments that you filed in writing, 20 prior to the telephone conference on December 21 11, 2012, and with the arguments that you made 22 on December 11, 2012, and to have those
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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Mr. 11 

### Roberts, how about you? Would that be 12 acceptable for you? 13 

### MR. ROBERTS: Yes. 14 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 15 Then let's go to you. 16 

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1 turn to you then and ask you if there's 2 anything else that you would like to add to 3 those arguments about why the $10,000 proposed 4 fine should be adopted by this Court? 5 MR. ELLIS: Only what I had 6 planned to argue about today. 7 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 8 what would that be? 9 MR. ELLIS: Well, let me make sure 10 I understand what's going to happen here 11 today. I thought there were going to be some 12 additional arguments but not any additional 13 evidence presented on the issues. And 14 assuming, and because it's Respondent's 15 burden, I was presuming that he was going to 16 go first and we would respond to that. 17 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, this 18 is 19 MR. ELLIS: Am I correct about the 20 procedure? 21 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: No. This 22 is a hearing. Essentially, you and the
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### 1 Respondent agreed to submit everything to me 2 on the written record, and then appear today 3 for a continued argument, or for argument on 4 the Cqse for purposes of me issuing a 5 

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### MR. ELLIS: I have it. 14 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 15 Let's take a look at page 7 of the order 16 denying summary judgment, and that would be 17 the last page because there's only seven 18 pages. 19 

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1 regarding theproposedcivil penaltyincluding 2 Respondent's ability to pay and its ability to 3 continue in business." 4 Paragraph 2 of the order, on page 5 7 says that, "The parties agree that the three 6 FAA exhibits attached, the FAA's October 26, 7 2012 motion for a decision should be admitted 8 as the evidentiary record for a decision 1n 9 this matter." And that's confirmed. 10 Paragraph 3 says, "The parties 11 agreement that the disputed issue of the 12 proposed civil penalty calculation may be 13 decided on the admitted evidentiary record 14 without further testimonial evidence or in15 person hearing is confirmed and adopted. 11 16 And then paragraph 4 talks about 17 striking the live hearing. 18 Paragraph 5 sets up today's date 19 and time for oral argument on the admitted 20 evidence and the disputed issue. 21 Essentially and one of the 22 things that we talked about on December 11,
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### 1 2012 was that when I looked at summary 2 judgment motions I had to look at them in a 3 light most favorable to the non-moving party, 4 which in this case was the Respondent. 5 I didn't make a finding either in 6 the oral arguments on December 11, 2012 or in 7 the order that was issued, before the, to the 8 parties on December 13, 2012 that there was an 9 establishedprima facie case that I'm adopting 10 and the matter was solely for the purpose of 11 defense
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### 1 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. But 2 let's look at the exhibits. And that's why I 3 was saying, I thought it was an omission. 4 None of the exhibits, none of them, unless you 5 can show me otherwise, none of the exhibits 6 stipulate that there was a prima facie .case or 7 that there were facts sufficient to support a 8 prima facie case. 9 And it sounded

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### MR. ELLIS: Yes, when you say 13 prima facie case, the distinction I'm making, 14 Your Honor, is when the facts in a case had 15 been admitted-- let's stick to the facts in 16 this case 17 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 18 

### MR. ELLIS: those facts are 19 deemed to be true, and therefore, support a 20 penalty. 21 

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### 1 but that's not fact. I don't see any other, 2 you know, any facts that need to be presented. 3 It's just a matter of

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 5 

### MR. ELLIS: arguing what 6 penalty

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well then, 8 why don't you educate me? I think that would 9 probably be best. 10 Look at the Exhibits 1, 2 and 3, 11 if you would be so kind, and tell me where 12 those exhibits support the fact of the 63,000 13 penalty, the considerations 14 

### MR. ELLIS: They don't. 15 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: They 16 don't? 17 

### MR. ELLIS: The complaint does 18 that, Your Honor. 19 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: But the 20 complaint is an accusation. It is not fact. 21 And it hasn't been admitted as fact in this 22 proceeding.
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### 1 MR. ELLIS: The facts of the 2 complaint have been admitted. Have been found 3 to be, have been found, Your Honor. 4 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: When? 5 MR. ELLIS: I filed a motion to 6 deem the facts admitted. The facts had been 7 

### admitted. That motion was granted, Your 8 Honor. 9 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Right. 10 The motion was granted in terms of the 11 violation. It was not granted in terms of the 12 penalty. 13 

### MR. ELLIS: Yes, but the facts, 14 what I'm saying, Your Honor, is the facts are 15 admitted as evidence. And it's those facts 16 which determine what the penalty will be. 17 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 18 Well, help me out again. 19 

### I'm looking at the complaint. On 20 page 6 of your complaint, paragraph 20, you 21 say, under the facts and circumstances of this 22 case, the civil penalty of $10,000 is
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### 1 appropriate. Would.you agree with that? 2 

### MR. ELLIS: That's correct. 3 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 4 then there is a motion, actually cross-motions 5 by the parties regarding a decision on the 6 merits. 7 

### MR. ELLIS: And before you go 8 further, Your Honor, it also talks about 9 consideration of Respondent's corrective 10 action and other matters that justice 11 requires
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### complaint, you're talking about? Are you 14 talking about the complaint, sir? Mr. Ellis? 15 

### MR. ELLIS: Yes, Your Honor. I'm 16 sorry you can't hear me. 17 

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..SULLIVAN: Okay. 18 Yes, on page 6 of the complaint there is a 19 request by the Agency for the Court to enter 20 an order assessing the Respondent a civil 21 penalty in the amount of $10,000. And an 22 

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### matters that justice require. I'm reading 4 from the complaint, page 6. 5 

### MR. ELLIS: Yes. I just didn't 6 want you to overlook that. 7 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes, I 8 

### haven't overlooked it. And it simply is a 9 request. It's not evidentiary evidence unless 10 the parties stipulate to it. 11 

### MR. ELLIS: I'm not saying it is, 12 Your Honor. I'm just 13 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: But what 14 I'm saying, Mr. Ellis, is that when we started 15 this conference this afternoon, one of the 16 things I was doing was trying to make sure 17 that I had a factual basis to support finding 18 that the FAA has made a prima facie case for 19 today, that it had done what it needed to do, 20 essentially, to ask the Court to issue an 21 order assessing the Respondent $10,000 in a 22 civil penalty.
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1 Once I make a finding that a prima 2 facie case has been made, then and only then, 3 can I go to the Respondent and say, okay 4 Respondent, what, if anything, can you say in 5 response to this request. 6 And I think the FAA and I are on 7 the same page, we just are coming at the 8 matter in a little different way. 9 If you had appeared before me in 10 an in-person trial, I would have expected you, 11 absent a stipulation by the parties, show me 12 some proof or some evidentiary information, 13 either by testimony or documentary evidence, 14 that you had a reasonable ground that was not 15 arbitrary to support your request for a 16 $10,000 penalty. And I think you would expect 17 yourself to do that, too. 18 We didn't have an in-person 19 hearing in part because it appeared that the 20 parties didn't really have a problem with 21 this, and that they did want to basically jump 22 into the Respondent's defense of case.
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### 1 As I looked through my material I 2 realized that I didn't actually have any 3 testimonial or documentary evidence that 4 supported this request for a finding of a 5 prima facie case, which was my 6 

### MR. ELLIS: I guess that's where 7 we're differing a little, Your Honor

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Yes. 9 

### MR. ELLIS: because we think 10 that when the facts in a complaint are 11 admitted and the statutory violations are 12 admitted, and considering the fact that the 13 

### statute allows for a penalty of up to the 14 statute I'm talking, not the sanctions in the 15 regulations

-- but since the statute itself 16 provides a sanction of up to $25,000 for each 17 one of those regulations, those facts combined 18 with the law alone support the amount of 19 penalty that's supported by those facts. 20 

### So when you're getting down to 21 what's actuallyproposed, you're talking about 22 a different thing than a prima facie case.
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### The amount of the penalty is already proven by 2 the number of allegations and the number of 3 

### violations of the Hazardous Materials 4 Regulation that was violated. 5 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: And how do 6 you reach that? 7 

### MR. ELLIS: How we reached it was 8 explained in the motion. 9 But to say that there are no facts 10 that support a sanction is what we're having 11 trouble with
. 12 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. You 13 

### have 19 violations. Would you agree or 14 disagree with that? 15 

### MR. ELLIS: That's correct. 16 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 17 this Court, on April 2nd, 2012 issued an order 18 deeming allegations of safety violations 19 admitted and granting/denying other relief. 20 Would you agree with that? 21 MR. ELLIS: Correct. 22 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: On page 2,
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### of the April 2nd, 2012 order deeming 2 allegations of safety violations admitted and 3 granting/denying other relief, there are four 4 

### separate, specific and distinct orders. 5 

### And it says in paragraph 2 of page 6 2, essentially that, the Respondent has 7 admitted to the safety violations in its 8 motion for decision/Respondent's answer. And 9 there is no genuine issue of material fact 10 regarding the alleged safety violations. And 11 as a result, a motion, judgment is granted as 12 a matter of law on the safety violations. 13 

### MR. ELLIS: Right. 14 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Paragraph 15 3 

### of that same order states that the 16 Respondent's motion for a decision waiving the 17 civil penalty of $10,000 is denied. And the 18 FAA's motion to deem allegations admitted in 19 motion for hearing on sanction only is 20 granted. And that there are genuine issues of 21 material fact regarding the FAA's proposed 22 civil penalty. Do you see that?
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1 MR. ELLIS: Yes. 2 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. So 3 what I'm hearing from the parties, because I 4 didn't see it in Exhibits 1 through 3, is a 5 stipulation that the FAA utilized the 6 published let me make sure that I say this 7 correctly the published sanction guidance 8 matrix. 9 MR. ELLIS: It's not just a 10 matrix, Your Honor. 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'm sorry? 12 MR. ELLIS: It's not just a 13 matrix. 14 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 15 MR. ELLIS: It's guidelines 16 including a matrix. 17 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. But 18 essentially

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### 1 the penaltymatrix in considering a variety of 2 different factors, as it's been tasked to do, 3 in looking at the nature of the violation, the 4 gravity of the violation, the circumstances 5 surrounding the violation, and so forth, to go 6 from an original $63,000 penalty to the 7 proposed $10,000 penalty before this Court. 8 That's my understanding of what the parties 9 actually want this Court to find as a fact. 10 MR. ELLIS: I believe that's 11 correct, Your Honor
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### MR. ROBERTS: Yes. 7 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 8 Thank you so much. 9 

### Mr. Ellis, turning to you, is 10 there anything else that you would like to add 11 to your arguments that the Court is adopting 12 from the motion for summary judgment and 13 utilizing for today's proceeding before I turn 14 to the Respondent? 15 

### MR. ELLIS: Well, I do have some 16 argument prepared. 17 

### But I suppose, procedurally, I 18 would want to know whether I am responding to 19 Respondent's ability to pay argument or 20 whether I'm asking, whether you're asking me 21 for more arguments for what we already 22 stipulated to.
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1 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: If you 2 like, I'm happy to reserve the totality of 3 your argument for reply. 4 MR. ELLIS: I would like to do 5 that then. 6 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: So noted. 7 Mr. Roberts, let's turn to you. 8 Let's talk about your arguments regarding the 9 Respondent's ability to pay and/or to continue 10 in business. Is there anything else you would 11 like to add to the arguments and the materials 12 that you've already presented to this Court? 13 Any other argument or comment, suggestion and 14 so forth? 15 MR. ROBERTS : Your Honor, there 16 really isn't. I think I've said, as best I 17 can, what I could say. 18 I could tell you what the results 19 were for this year but I don't think it's 20 actually germane. Although, between you and 21 me, and it's not part of the record, 22 obviously, the results were yet worse. But
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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. In 6 

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### 1 might conceivablyviolateFAA regulations, the 2 only product that has alcohol in it or any 3 other flammable substance, we immediately did 4 it. And to claim that we should have taken 5 that remedial action the minute it was brought 6 to our attention that there had possibly been 7 a violation, when we were still trying to 8 figure out how it could be a violation, 9 doesn't make sense to me. 10 But that's the only thing I would 11 say. 12 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Well, let 13 me ask you about that, because according to 14 the documentation that I received, you met 15 with Mr. Ellis on February 11, 2011 to discuss 16 this case. It was at that date that Mr. Ellis 17 recommended that Ms. Rego, the executive of 18 the company, take a hazmat course. 19 

### MR. ROBERTS: Yes. 20 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: And that 21 he wanted to have the results of that hazmat 22 course filed with his office no later than
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### February 25, 2011, which was essentially two 2 weeks later. 3 

### MR. ROBERTS: Well

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: According 5 to the

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### MR. ROBERTS : I'm sorry. Go 7 ahead. 8 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: According 9 to the certificate that your client filed, the 10 course was completed on April 5, 2011, which 11 is significantly longer than the two weeks 12 originally recommended. Why is it, in your 13 opinion, that that would have been timely and 14 should be taken into account as remedial? 15 MR. ROBERTS: When I don't 16 

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1 day I returned from Atlanta and to my office, 2 and she, on that same day, found and signed up 3 for a course. And then the course took its 4 course, if you will. And she immediately took 5 it, passed it and got the certificate back. So 6 there was no delay in our action. I just 7 think that was the time that was involved. 8 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. And 9 according to the FAA, it took into account 10 some remedial actions by your client. In your 11 opinion, how much should this Court take into 12 account that the FAA did not? 13 MR. ROBERTS: Well, I didn't see 14 what the

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1 complaint I said, this was arbitrary, because 2 I didn't even know about the matrix at that 3 point. But in any event, I just think that 4 given the nature of the company, given the 5 one-time nature of this situation, because the 6 company isn't doing this anymore, and knows 7 the hazardous material information now 8 perfectly well, that the immediate response 9 that we made

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### 1 because that, frankly, is not an amount that 2 would imperil the business. It wouldn't be a 3 significant factor whether the business 4 survives or not. 5 But $10,000, it gets significant 6 for this tiny company. And I don't know what 7 consequence could follow upon having the fine 8 assessed other than imperiling the jobs of the 9 half dozen people that are working there full10 time. 11 So that's all I can say about it.I 12 mean, how you evaluate these things, there's 13 no, there are no set criteria. It's, I think 14 it's just a value

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### were different $10,000 is more than is 21 really, what the company can really sustain. 22 That's my argument.
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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you 2 very much. 3 

### Mr. Ellis, would you like to 4 reply? 5 

### MR. ELLIS: Sort of briefly and 6 generally. I believe the question you asked 7 him was about the corrective action and he did 8 go over a little bit into the ability to pay 9 argument again. So I'll visit both of those 10 topics briefly. 11 

### But I don't have a whole lot 12 that's significantly different from what we 13 

### said before. We cited the administrator's 14 previous cases in the motion for decision. 15 And I think there were one or two in the reply 16 

### to Respondent's answer for the motion. The 17 TCI Corporation case and the Phillips Building 18 Supply case. 19 First of all, the most pertinent 20 one is that no credit at all really should be 21 given for training that is legally required. 22 And for a hazmat manufacturer and a hazmat
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1 offeror to have no training, that was the 2 situation we were dealing with. So any 3 training that they got was required training. 4 So the law doesn't provide any reduction for 5 that. We offered it just as a matter of good 6 faith. And we want to be clear about that. 7 In regard to the argument 8 regarding ability to pay, I think the most 9 comprehensive thing I can say is that that 10 burden is the Respondent's burden to prove. 11 And with the evidence that he's shown us, and 12 in particular, in regard to the ratios that we 13 discussedbefore, doesn't, neither ratio shows 14 that they can't pay a penalty. 15 (Phone interruption.) 16 MR. ELLIS: So therefore, we don't 17 think

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### to say what they need to say. 10 Mr. Ellis, please continue. 11 

### MR. ELLIS: Yes
. And I'm just 12 trying to be as brief as I can. 13 

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1 need to show the preponderance of evidence to 2 show that it doesn't have the ability to 3 pay. Let me just 4 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. Let 5 me ask you a question or two. 6 One of the things that the matrix 7 talks about is whether or not a remedial 8 action includes making a systemic change that 9 is intended to prevent future violations. And 10 one could make the argument that when you stop 11 shipping hazardous material altogether, that 12 that's a systemic change. 13 MR. ELLIS: Where are you reading 14 that from, Your Honor? 15 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Excuse me? 16 MR. ELLIS: Where did you see that 17 language about systemic changes? 18 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I saw it 19 in Appendix C, Sanction Guidance Hazardous 20 Materials 21 MR. ELLIS: Okay. 22 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: So I'm
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### MR. ELLIS: The two primary 4 factors that the administrator has found to be 5 mitigating in these cases are whether the 6 corrective action is swift and whether it's 7 comprehensive. Obviously, when a company does 8 comprehensive corrective action, it's better 9 

### than action that's not comprehensive. And 10 it's better to be systemic than not systemic. 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Would you 12 agree or disagree that completely stopping 13 shipping of hazardous material is, in fact, a 14 systemic change? 15 

### MR. ELLIS: No, we wouldn't agree 16 to that. 17 

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1 are several levels of training that are 2 required depending on what a person's hazmat 3 functions are. 4 So certainly comprehensive 5 training for everybody who comes into contact 6 with hazmat would be the starting point. The 7 follow-up would be what you would look for 8 after that. Some kind of plan put in place 9 for new employees that come into the company 10 and the executives that follow. 11 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: So a 12 company that chooses to stop any and all 13 hazmat shipping does not stand in as good of 14 shoes for a remedial action under the systemic 15 change as a company that continues to ship 16 hazmat but trains everyone? 17 MR. ELLIS: Yes. Stopping 18 shipping hazmat is not mitigating at all. 19 Any reasonable person who's found 20 to have been shipping illegal hazardous 21 materials, you know, we expect them to stop 22 shipping. We don't consider that a mitigating
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### 1 factor. 2 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 3 I'll note folks that Mr. Smith has come back 4 to the hearing room and has indicated by a 5 gesture that the conference has been extended 6 for the time that we need. 7 Let me ask you another question, 8 Mr. Ellis. You had indicated on December 11, 9 2012

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-- yes, if you have something that 9 you know about right now I would be more than 10 appreciative of those citations. 11 MR. ELLIS: Okay. The oldest and 12 probably best case that deals with this 13 particular issue is a case called Powertronic. 14 I can get the cite for you in a second if you 15 have a second. 16 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 17 MR. ELLIS: Okay. This is way 18 back in '87. The case is called Powertronic 19 Incorporated. And it's Case Number 85 G.L. 20 730003. 21 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: I'll 22 repeat that. Powertronic Inc., 85 G.L.
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### MR. ELLIS: That would be the only 5 ALJ decision that I can think of at the moment 6 

### that dealt with this particular issue. In 7 that case, there were three years of analysis 8 to look at instead of two. 9 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: And in 10 that case, the decision-maker said that 11 borrowing money is an acceptable process for 12 

### the Respondent in meeting the civil penalty? 13 

### MR. ELLIS: No, I'm not saying 14 

### that, Your Honor. I'm just saying that it 15 looked at similar issues to what we're looking 16 at today. And that's the only case that I've 17 seen that deals with the issue at all. 18 ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 19 

### MR. ELLIS: With the issue of the 20 ability to pay at all in any in-depth manner. 21 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Okay. 22 

### Thank you very much for that citation. I'll
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### MR. ELLIS: I think I've covered 5 

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: All right. 7 

### Thank you very much, Mr. Ellis and Mr. 8 

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### is closed. And the matter is ready for 18 decision. 19 On behalf of the FAA, Mr. Ellis, 20 is there anything you would like to add or 21 

### correct or note for the record before we 22 close?
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### MR. ELLIS: No, Your Honor. 2 

### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Mr. 3 Roberts, on behalf of your client, anything 4 you would like to add, or correct, or note for 5 the record before we close? 6 

### MR. ROBERTS: I appreciate your 7 

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### ADMIN. JUDGE SULLIVAN: Thank you 16 very much. 17 

### It appears our business is 18 complete. We can go off the record. 19 And I wish you all a good day. 20 Thank you. 21 (Whereupon, the above-entitled 22 

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This is to certify that the foregoing transcript

In the matter of: FAA v. Covermark, USA
Before: DOT/FAA

Date: 01-17-13
Place: teleconference

was duly recorded and accurately transcribed under my direction; further, that said transcript is a true and accurate record of the proceedings.

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