# GULF STATES STEEL, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Superseded by Another Enforcement Action
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20938`
- **Case Number:** 04-1993-1376
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Superseded by Another Enforcement Action
- **Penalty assessed:** $800K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GULF STATES STEEL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GULF STATES STEEL, INC. (GSS), LOCATED IN GADSDEN, ALABAMA,  IS THE SECOND LARGEST STEEL MILL IN THE SOUTHEAST.  FOUNDED  IN 1904 AND FORMERLY KNOWN AS REPUBLIC STEEL, THE FACILITY  CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY 160 CONTIGUOUS UNOCCUPIED ACRES.  THE PRINCIPAL CLAIM WHICH SERVES AS THE BASIS FOR THE PROPOSED ACTION IS         CONTINUED OPERATION OF A RCRA-REGULATED UNIT WITHOUT A  PERMIT OR INTERIM STATUS. WITH THE SEPTEMBER 25, 1990 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC LEACHING  PROCEDURE (HEREINAFTER TC) RULE, GSS BECAME SUBJECT TO RCRA  FOR ITS TREATMENT, STORAGE OR DIPOSAL OF D018, SPECIFICALLY  WASTE WATER WHICH FAILED THE TC FOR BENZENE.  THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED DISCHARGE OF D018 FROM THE COKE WASTE WATER  TREATMENT PLANT INTO THE UNLINED DITCH IS A REGULATED ACTIVITY UNDER RCRA.    THE COMPANY TIMELY SUBMITTED ITS PART A PERMIT APPLICATION AND SECTION 3010 NOTIFICATION FOR  AN UNLINED WASTE WATER SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT ON SEPTEMBER 25,  1990, THEREBY ACHIEVING INTERIM STATUS ON THAT DATE FOR THE  UNIT DESIGNATED IN THE SUBMITTALS.   THE COMPANY TIMELY SUBMITTED A PART B PERMIT APPLICATION AND A GROUNDWATER MONITORING  CERTIFICATION, BUT FAILED TO INCLUDE THE CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH AT 40   C.F.R. PART 265, SUBPART H

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