# CLEV EL IL-ASHTABULA
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25047`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0002
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $175K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CLEVELAND ELEC ILLUMINATING CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING(CEI) OWNS & OPERATES 5  ELECTRICITY GENERATING PLANTS IN OH. THESE FACILITIES ARE    SUBJECT TO THE OH STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN LIMITATIONS ON   PARTICUALTE & VISIBLE EMISSIONS. ALL THE PLANTS EXCEPT AVON  LAKE ARE IN PRIMARY NON-ATTAINMENT AREAS.                      CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                ON 1/23/79, A DELAYED COMPLIANCE ORDER(DCO) SIGNED BY   CEI Z& EPA BECAME FINAL. SETTING FORTH COMPLIANCE SCHED FOR  16 UNITS AT 4 POWER-PLANTS; ASHTABULA, AVON LAKE, EASTLAKE & LAKE SHORE. ON 6/28/79, EPA ISSUED A NOV TO CEI ADDRESSING   PARTICULATE VIOL'S AT THE CANAL ROAD PLANT, WHICH WAS NOT    SUBJECT TO THWE DCO. CEI FAILED TO MEET THE FINAL COMPLIANCE DATES FOR SEVERAL UNITS COVERED BY THE DCO. ON 3/17/81, THE  GOV'T FILED A COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOL'S AT 4 OF THE 5 PLANTS . THE ASHTABULA PLANT COMPLIED W/THE DCO.                      PROPOSED REMEDY:                                                AT THIS POINT ONLY 2 UNITS AT THESE PLANTS HAVE NOT     DEMONSTRATED COMPLAINCE AT FULL CAPACITY. CANAL ROAD UNITS   34 & 36. THE OH SIP HAS RECENTLY BEEN REVISED TO ALLOW DEMO- NSTATION OF COMPLIANCE AT DERATED LAODS. THE GOV'T IS NEG'   ING A CD W/CEI WHICH WOULD SET FORTH OPERATING PARAMETERS    FOR MAINTAINING COMPLIANCE AT THE CANAL ROAD PLANT, AS WELL  AS CIVIL PLTY'S FOR PAST VIOL'S.                               NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT ISSUES:      

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