# ABBOTT LABORATORIES PR
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1918`
- **Case Number:** 02-1985-0015
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MITCHELL, CALVIN M. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 4/21/83, EPA ISSUED A PSD PERMIT TO ABBOTT WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION OF A NEW DIESEL COGENERATION FACILITY.  PERMIT CONDITION I(B) SPECIFIED THAT PARTICULATE  EMISSIONS FROM THE DIESEL COGENERATION FACILITY ARE LIMITED  TO 0.5 GRAM/HORSEPOWER-HOUR; PERMIT CONDITION I(F) SPECI-    FIED THAT VISIBLE EMISSIONS FROM THE DIESEL COGENERATION     FACILITY MAY NOT EXCEED 20% OPACITY.                           STACK TESTS CONDUCTED AT THE ABBOTT DIESEL COGENERATION    FACILITY DURING THE PERIOD 2/6/85 THRU 2/7/85 REVEALED A     PARTICULATE EMISSION RATE OF 0.95 GRAM/HORSEPOWER-HOUR.  IN  ADDITION, THE OPACITY OF EMISSIONS EMANATING FROM THE DIESEL COGENERATION FACILITY DURING 3 CONSECUTIVE 6-MINUTE SETS OF  OBSERVATIONS MADE ON 2/7/85 AVERAGED 38.12%, 37.29% & 33.33% RESPECTIVELY.  THESE VIOLATIONS OF PERMIT CONDITIONS OF THE  PSD PERMIT CONSTITUTE VIOLATIONS OF 40 CFR 52.2729(B) AND    40 CFR 52.21(R)(1).

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