The owners and manager of 11 housing units in the Holyoke area have agreed to pay $16,000 to resolve claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they violated the federal lead paint disclosure law.

According to EPA’s New England office, Atlas Property Management Inc., 224-224A Washington Street Nominee Realty Trust, and Archgate Townhouses LLC violated the law between 2007 and 2009 by failing to provide prospective tenants with information concerning the presence of lead paint.

Atlas Property Management of Holyoke, which managed all of the properties and handled all of the lease transactions in question, and the Washington Street Trust, which owns 10 of the 11 units in question, together agreed to pay a total penalty of $12,500 to resolve the EPA allegations. Atlas manages residential rental properties with more than 250 units in and around the area and specializes in "problem buildings" requiring high levels of service and property maintenance.

Archgate Townhouses of Swampscott, which owns just one of the units at issue, agreed to pay $3,500 to settle its alleged violations. The violations against Archgate arise out of an October 2009 lease from one of the rental units in a property located at 758 Westfield St. in West Springfield.

All three parties were charged with failing to give tenants required lead hazard information pamphlets, failing to include lead warning statements in a lease, failing to include a disclosure statement regarding lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards, and failing to provide records or other information pertaining to lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards.

Both settlements stem from a September 2007 EPA inspection of Atlas Property Management offices in Holyoke. The penalties are based on the severity of the violations and the parties’ financial condition, among other factors. All of the properties cited were built before 1978 and at least one child lived in all but one of the units at the time of the violations.