# BOISE CASCADE CORP LEWIS MILL
> **Judicial** · FY1981 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1840`
- **Case Number:** 02-1981-0015
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $40K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BOISE CASCADE CORP LEWIS MILL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BOISE CASCADE (BC) OPERATES A NUMBER OF BOILERS AT ITS     LEWIS MILL IN BEAVER FALLS, NY.  EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF      VIOLATION TO BC ON 5/20/80 PURSUANT TO 113(A)(1) OF THE      CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA) ALLEGING THAT VISIBLE EMISSIONS HAD      BEEN OBSERVED EMANATING FROM THE STACK AT LEWIS MILL, THE    OPACITY OF WHICH EXCEEDED THE PERMISSIBLE LIMITS IN 6 NYCRR  227.4.  STACK TEST PERFORMED FOR BC ON 10/23-25/80 TO        MEASURE AMOUNT OF PARTICULATE EMISSIONS EMANATING FROM       THE LEWIS MILL, REVEALED THAT SUCH EMISSIONS EXCEEDED THE    APPLICABLE LIMITS FOR PARTICULATES SET FORTH IN 6 NYCRR      227.3.  EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE ON 1/2/81       PURSUANT TO 120 OF THE CAA.  PARTIES ENTERED A CONSENT       DECREE DATED 1/21/82 BY WHICH BC AGREED TO PAY A NON-        COMPLIANCE PENALTY OF $40,000 AND TO CONDUCT A COMPLIANCE    PROGRAM TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE BY 1/15/83.                      CONTEMPT ACTION - THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION CONCERNING        VIOLATIONS OF A CONSENT DECREE BY BOISE CASCADE CORP. OF     BEAVER FALLS, NY.  BC HAS NEVER MET THE APPLICABLE EMISSION  LIMITATIONS PURSUANT TO THE CD ENTERED IN CIVIL ACTION NO.   81-CV-1242.  VISIBLE EMISSION EVALUATIONS CONDUCTED AT       LEWIS MILL IN AUGUST 1984, AUGUST 1986, AND MARCH 1987       DEMONSTRATE CONTINUING OPACITY VIOLATIONS.                     PROPOSED RELIEF SOUGHT:  A) ORDER AND COMPLIANCE           SCHEDULE REQUIRING BC TO COMPLY WITH 6 NYCRR 227.4; AND      B) CIVIL PENALTY OF $75,000.  THIS AMO

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