# V.I. WATER & POWER
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1851`
- **Case Number:** 02-1982-0040
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $225K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- VIRGIN ISLANDS WATER & POWER AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             VIWAPA OPERATES OIL-FIRED POWER GENERATION & DESALINI-  ZATION FACILITIES ON THE ISLANDS OF ST. TOMAS & ST.CROIX.    THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE STATIONARY SOURCES OF AIR POLLUTION  EMISSIONS &, AS SUCH, ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CAA & THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER.                     VIWAPA ACQUIRED 2 GENERAL ELECTRIC STATIONARY GAS TUR-  BINES IN LATE 1980 AS A CONSEQUENCE OF AN ISLAND-WIDE POWER  CRISIS. THESE ARE ELECTRIC-GENERATING TURBINES POWERED BY    HOT GASES, USALLY FROM A DIESEL-FUELED COMBUSTION SOURCE.    THEREAFTER, EPA REGN 2 ISSUED NOTICES OF VIOL TO VIWAPA IN   CONNECTION W/ITS CONSTRUCTION & SUBSEQUENT OPERATION OF      TURBINES AT THE ST. THOMAS & ST.CROIX POWER INSTALLATIONS IN VIOL OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE USVI IMPLEMENTATION PLAN &   THE PSD & NSPS REGULATIONS.                                       EPA REGN 2 HAS HAD NUMEROUS CONFERENCES W/REPS OF       VIWAPA SUBSEQUENT TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED      NOVS. THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE RECENTLY RESULTED IN AN AGREE-  MENT, THE TERMS OF WHICH HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED IN THE       PROPOSED CD.                                                 ************************************************************       ENTERED CONSENT DECREE IN CDETS #02-82-C004            ************************************************************ *ENFORCEMENT OF CONSENT DECREE ENTERED NOVEMBER 7, 1988.     VIOLATIONS UPON WHICH ACTION IS BASED:

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