This Consent Decree resolves numerous violations of the Clean Air Act and Indiana and Ohio State Implementation Plans at four integrated iron and steel plants in Indiana and Ohio owned by ArcelorMittal. The settlement is the culmination of 7 years of settlement negotiations and resolves violations including excess emissions of HAPs dating back as far as 2006. ArcelorMittal violated numerous provisions of NESHAPs for Integrated Iron and Steel Plants, Coke Ovens, Steel Pickling and HCl Processing Facilities, the NSPS AAa for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces, their Title V operating permit requirements, provisions of the Indiana and Ohio State Implementation Plans. Specifically, these violations resulted in the release of excess emissions from numerous operations throughout the four facilities. Additionally, this settlement resolves numerous violations of monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. This settlement will help reduce environmental justice communities? exposure to excess PM, visible emissions, SO2, NOx, CO, VOCs, and HAPs.
Under the settlement terms, ArcelorMittal agrees to develop and implement procedures to reduce excess emissions from the BOF Shop, blast furnaces, and coke oven batteries, install and operate an emission suppression system with an enclosure during beaching events, implement an electronic data management program to ensure all required calibrations and inspections are scheduled and completed on time, discontinue use of coal as a fu