# MONROE COUNTY, NY
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200`
- **Case Number:** 02-1986-0279
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MONROE, COUNTY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PROPOSES THE FILING OF A CIVIL ACTION PURSUANT TO     SECTION 113(B) OF THE CAA, 42 USC 7413(B), AGAINST MONROE    COUNTY, NY, FOR VIOLATIONS, AT THE COUNTY'S IOLA POWERHOUSE, OF THE OPACITY AND PARTICULATE EMISSION LIMITATIONSOF 6      NYCRR PART 227, A PORTION OF THE NYSIP, 40 CFR 52.1679.        THE IOLA POWERHOUSE IS A STATIONARY COMBUSTION INSTALLA-   TION USING SPREADER STOKERS, THAT HAS BEEN IN OPERATION PRI- OR TO 6/1/72 AND HAS A TOTAL HEAT INPUT EQUAL TO OR LESS     THAN 300 MILLION BTU PER HOUR.  THE FACILITY IS, THEREFORE,  SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF PART 227.  ON 4/22/85, AN EPA INSPECTOR OBSERVED VISIBLE EMISSIONS EXCEEDING BOTH THE 40%  AND 20% OPACITY LIMITATIONS.  ON 7/9-7/12, 1985 STACK TESTS  CONDUCTED BY THE COUNTY'S CONTRACTORS AT THE POWERHOUSE RE-  SULTED IN PARTICULATE EMISSIONS IN EXCESS OF 0.60 POUNDS PER MILLION BTU.  EPA ISSUED THE COUNTY A NOV DATED 12/31/85,    DESCRIBING THESE SIP VIOLATIONS.  ON 5/18/86, EPA'S NEIC     CONDUCTED A LIDAR INVESTIGATION AT THE IOLA POWERHOUSE.      LIDAR IS AN APPROVED EPA REFERENCE METHOD FOR MEASURING OPA- CITY.  THE LIDAR INVESTIGATION REVEALED VIOLATIONS OF BOTH   THE 20% & 40% OPACITY LIMITATIONS.  ON 6/3-6/4/86, THE COUN- TY PERFORMED ANOTHER STACK TEST WHICH REVEALED PARTICULATE   EMISSIONS IN EXCESS OF THE PART 227 LIMITATION.                AT A 3/14/86 CONFERENCE FOLLOWING THE ISSUANCE OF THE NOV, REPRESENTATIVES OF MONROE COUNTY EXPLAINED TO REGION 2 THAT  THE COUNTY HAD EMBARKED UPON A COMPLIA

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