# OMARK CARIBBEAN, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1896`
- **Case Number:** 02-1984-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $550K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OMARK CARIBBEAN, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

OMARK CARIBBEAN, INC. IS A SAW CHAIN MANUFACTURING COM- PANY WHICH HAS CONSISTENTLY VIOLATED ITS PERMIT CONDITIONS   SINCE OCT.,1980, PRIMARILY DUE TO A DELAY OF OVER SIX YEARS  IN INSTALLATION OF A BPT TREATMENT SYSTEM AS REQUIRED BY AN  EPA ENFORCEMENT COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE LETTER OF JANUARY, 1978. THE CO. DISCHARGES INTO A SMALL UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF THE     BAYAMON RIVER, DESIGNATED  SD  AS A SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER BY THE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS OF PR.                             DUE, IN PART, TO FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TIMELY RENEWAL AP- PLICATION PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION DATE OF ITS FIRST ROUND    PERMIT, EPA ISSUED AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE TO OMARK ON SEPT.  30, 1981, FINDING THAT OMARK HAD VIOLATED ITS EFFLUENT       LIMITATIONS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS, HAD FAILED TO CONSTRUCT   NECESSARY TREATMENT FACILITIES, AND WAS DISCHARGING POLLU-   TANTS WITHOUT AN EFFECTIVE NPDES PERMIT.  A COMPLETE, RE-    VISED RENEWAL APPLICATION WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO EPA UNTIL     MAY 31, 1983; THUS OMARK CONTINUED TO DISCHARGE POLLUTANTS   WITHOUT AN EFFECTIVE NPDES PERMIT UNTIL DEC. 1, 1983, THE    EFFECTIVE DATE OF ITS SECOND ROUND PERMIT. EPA AND EQB COM-  PLIANCE INSPECTIONS DURING 1982, 1983, AND 1984 DISCLOSED    NUMEROUS MONITORING, REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY VIOLATIONS; AND OMARK'S DMR'S DEMONSTRATE A CONSISTENT PAT-  TERN OF SIGNIFICANT EFFLUENT LIMITATION VIOLATIONS DATING    FROM JAN., 1981.  IN ADDITION, OMARK HAS BEEN DELINQUENT IN  SUBMISSION OF ITS DMR'S.                 

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