# INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `136`
- **Case Number:** 01-1987-0018
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $450K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IPC OPERATES A BOILER WHICH FIRES WOOD AND OIL, THE WASTE    FUEL INCINERATOR (WFI), WHICH MAINE LICENSED IN 1977 TO BURN OIL AT A RATE LESS THAN 250 MILLION BTU/HR., THEREBY AVOID-  ING NSPS APPLICATION.  IPC HAS REPEATEDLY FIRED OIL IN THE   WFI AT A RATE GREATER THAN 250 MILLION BTU/HR., MAKING THE   NSPS APPLICABLE TO THE WFI'S EMISSIONS.  THE WFI HAS REPEAT- EDLY VIOLATED THE PARTICULATES NSPS LIMIT, AND EPA HAS EVID- ENCE OF VIOLATIONS OF THE NITROGEN OXIDES LIMIT AS WELL. THE WFI VIOLATES THE SULFUR LIMIT WHEN FIRING OIL ALONE.

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