# ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20237`
- **Case Number:** 04-1985-0028
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $125K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE:  THE BASES FOR THIS PROPOSED CIVIL CON-    TEMPT ACTION ARE SECTION 113(B) OF THE CAA, 42 U.S.C. SEC-   TION 7413(B) AND PARTS XI(7) AND IX(4) OF THE CONSENT DECREE AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES HEREIN AND ENTERED BY THE COURT ON  AUGUST 30, 1982.                                             ALABAMA BY-PRODUCTS CORP (ABC) OWNS AND OPERATES A COKE PLT  IN TARRANT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA.                       THE RESPONDENT (A DEFENDANT IN A CIVIL CONTEMPT ACTION) HAS  VIOLATED A FINAL COMPLIANCE ATTAINMENT AND COMPLIANCE DEMON- STRATION DEADLINE OF 06/30/85 FOR A MASS EMISSIONS LIMITA-   TION APPLICABLE TO THE  GAS CLEANING DEVICE  (BAGHOUSE) SER- VICING COKE BATTERIES 1,5, & 6 AS WELL AS A 20% OPACITY      STANDARD PERTAINING TO THE CAPTURE OF  PUSHING EMISSIONS  OF AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTER OCCUR WHEN COKE IS REMOVED FROM  A COKE OVEN. ALSO, ABC VIOLATED A 20% OPACITY STANDARD IN    THE CONSENT DECREE APPLICABLE TO COMBUSTION STACK #4.          RECOMMENDED ACTION:  IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT $695,000       BE EPA'S INITIAL DEMAND TO SETTLE THIS CONTEMPT ACTION.

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