# USX CORPORATION - CLAIRTON WORKS
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `10963`
- **Case Number:** 03-1986-0802
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $125K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- USX CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

USX CORP IS NEWLY RESTRUCTURED CORP. WHICH REPLACES THE   U.S. STEEL CORP. USX IS DIVIDED INTO 4 OPERATING UNITS, ONE  OF WHICH IS THE U.S. STEEL DIV. THIS CASE CONCERNS VIOLA-    TIONS OF A CD, ENTERED ON 7/10/79, IN THE CASE OF U.S. VS    U.S. STEEL CORP, C.A. NO. 79-709. ALTHOUGH THE CD COVERS A   NUMBER OF FACILITIES, ONLY THE CLAIRTON COKE WORKS IS THE    SUBJECT OF THIS REFERRAL. THERE ARE 14 COKE OVENS BATTERIES  AT THE CLAIRTON WORKS WHICH MAY BE OPERATED. HOWEVER, ONLY   6 WERE BEING USED PRIOR TO BEING PLACED ON HOT IDLE BECAUSE  OF THE RECENT STRIKE/LOCKOUT FOR USX STEELWORKERS. THE VIO-  LATIONS OF THE CD ARE VIOLATIONS OF THE EMISSION STANDARDS   FOR DOORS, LIDS, CHARGING, OFFTAKES, COMBUSTION STACKS &     PUSHING. THE APPLICAZBLE CD STANDARDS ARE THE SAME AS THE    APPLICABLE STANDARDS SET IN REGULATIONS CONTAINED IN THE AL- LEGHENY COUNTY PORTION OF THE PA SIP.                           EPA, THE PADER & THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. HAVE   BEEN NEGOTIATING W/USX SINCE 3/86 REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF    THE CD. AT THE MOST RECENT MEETING HELD ON 9/10/86, USX IN-  DICATED A WILLINGNESS TO REPLACE THE EXISTING PUSHING CON-   TROLS AT THE COKE OVEN BATTERIES W/ A NEW SYSTEM AS PART OF  A TOTAL RE-WORKING OF THE MON VALLEY CD.                        HOWEVER TO EXPEDITE THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS & TO INSURE   THAT THERE IS A MECHANISM TO ADDRESS THESE VIOLATIONS IN THE EVENT NEGOTIATIONS DO NOT QUICKLY RESULT IN AGREEMENT, REG 3 REQUESTS THAT A MOTION FOR CONTEMPT BE 

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