# AMPCO PRINTING CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1914`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMPCO PRINTING CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REGION II PROPOSES FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION PURSUANT TO    CAA/113(B), 42 USC 7413(B), AGAINST AMPCO FOR ITS VIOLATION  6 NYCRR PART 212.  AMPCO OWNS & OPERATES A PRINTING PLANT IN BRONX, NY.  AMPCO'S PRINTING PROCESS IS A PROCESS SYSTEM     WITHIN THE MEANING OF 6 NYCRR PART 212.  THERE ARE SEVERAL   EMISSION POINTS AT THE PLANT WHICH CONSTITUTE VENTILATION    SYSTEMS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE REGULATION.  ON 10/30/84,  AN INSPECTION WAS PERFORMED AT AMPCO'S PLANT BY AN ENVIRON-  MENTAL SCIENTIST OF THE US EPA, REGION II.  BASED UPON THIS  INSPECTION, EPA ISSUED A NOV, INDEX NO. 50201, TO AMPCO PUR- SUANT TO CAA/113(A).  THE NOTICE CITED THE CO. FOR VIOLATING 6 NYCRR 212.7(A) FOR ALLOWING SMOKE EMISSIONS SIGNIFICANTLY  EXCEEDING 20% OPACITY TO EMANATE FROM THE PLANT.               AMPCO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF OPACITY VIOLATIONS.  THE CO.   BEGAN OPERATIONS AT ITS PRESENT LOCATION IN THE BRONX IN     MARCH, 1984.  PRIOR TO THAT, AMPCO OPERATED A PRINTING PLANT IN MANHATTAN.  EPA RECEIVED NUMEROUS CITIZEN COMPLAINTS OVER THE YEARS ABOUT THE EMISSIONS FROM THIS MANHATTAN PLANT.       ON 12/28/84, EPA MET W/ AMPCO & PPG, ITS INK SUPPLIER, IN  RESPONSE TO THE CO.'S REQUEST FOR A CONFERENCE PURSUANT TO   CAA/113(A)(4).  THE CO. CLAIMS THAT IT IS STILL TESTING ITS  INKS UNDER A VARIETY OF CONDITIONS (IE. DIFFERENT PRESS      SPEEDS, VARYING INK COVERAGE OF THE WEB, DIFFERENT WEATHER   CONDITIONS).  IT HAS CHOSEN TO TEST INKS FOR THE LAST SEVEN  YEARS IN LIEU OF INSTALLING ANY CONTRO

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