# NYC HOUSING AUTHORITY
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1869`
- **Case Number:** 02-1983-0004
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NYC HOUSING AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                         THE NY CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY OWNS AND OPERATES NINE       PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO THIS ACTION.    INCINERATORS ARE USED TO DISPOSE OF GARBAGE AT THESE HOUSING COMPLEXES, RESULTING IN EMISSIONS OF PARTICULATES, NITROGEN  OXIDES, AND HYDROCARBONS.                                         CAUSE OF ACTION                                           ON 4/23/82, EPA ISSUED A NOV TO THE AUTHORITY, CITING 184  INCINERATORS FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VISIBLE EMISSION LIMITA-  TION IN THE SIP.  THE NOV ALSO CITED THE AUTHORITY FOR       OPERATING THESE INCINERATORS WITHOUT A CERTIFICATE TO        OPERATE.  IN 11/82, AN EPA INSPECTOR DOCUMENTED CONTINUING   VISIBLE EMISSION VIOLATIONS AT 13 OF THE 184 INCINERATORS.   THE REGION IS RECOMMENDING FILING A CIVIL ACTION ALLEGING    OPACITY VIOLATIONS AT ONLY THE 13 INCINERATORS BUT HOPES     TO REACH A SETTLEMENT ADDRESSING ALL 184.  (NOTE: DOCUMENTA- TION OF CONTINUING VIOLATION IS A STATUTORY PREREQUISITE FOR FILING AN ENFORCEMENT ACTION.)                                 ALL INCINERATORS ARE LOCATED IN AREAS WHICH ARE SECONDARY  NON-ATTAINMENT OR NON-CLASSIFIABLE FOR PARTICULATES AND      NITROGEN OXIDES AND WHICH HAVE AN EXTENDED ATTAINMENT DEAD-  LINE FOR OZONE.  THEREFORE THE POST-1982 ENFORCEMENT POLICY  DOES NOT APPLY.                                                   PROPOSED REMEDY                                           IN JUNE 1982, THE AUTHORITY SIGNED A S

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