# BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION (SPARROWS POINT)
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `11185`
- **Case Number:** 03-1987-0117
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

TWO PRIVATE CITIZEN GROUPS, NRDC AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY   FOUNDATION, FILED SUIT AGAINST THE BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP.     THE SUIT ALLEGED NPDES PERMIT EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS AT THE     CORP.'S SPARROWS POINT FACILITY.  AFTER THE GROUPS AND THE   CORPORATION REACHED A TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT.  THE DEPARTMENT  OF JUSTICE MOVED TO INTERVENE BECAUSE THE COMPANY WOULD NOT  HAVE PAID A PENALTY UNDER THE PROPOSED DECREE, JUST FUNDED   AN TRUST FUND FOR EMVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS.  AFTER NEGOTIATION AMONG ALL PARTIES, A REVISED CONSENT DECREE WAS AGREED UPON.

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