# CELOTEX
> **Judicial** · FY1980 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25098`
- **Case Number:** 05-1980-0060
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CELOTEX CORP (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             CELOTEX CORP MANUFACTURES & DISTRIBUTES A VARIETY OF    BUILDING MATERIAL PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT THE US. THE PEORIA     PLANT MAKES DRY ROOFING FELT FROM THE RAW MATERIALS OF       SHREDDED WASTE PAPER & WOOD CHIPS. PEORIA IS IN AN AREA      WHICH IS NON-ATTAINMENT FOR PARTICULATE & ATTAINMENT FOR     S02.                                                           CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                2 COAL-FIRED BOILERS USED TO GENERATE PROCESS STEAM     & ELECTRIC AT THE PLANT ARE IN VIOL OF IL STATE IMPLEMEN-    TATION PLAN LIMITATIONS ON PARTICULATE, OPACITY & SULFUR     DIOXIDE. IN ADDITION, THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT CELOTEX     FAILED TO COMPLY W/A REQUEST FOR INFO ISSUED UNDER SEC       114.                                                           PROPOSED REMEDY:                                                THIS CIVIL ACTION SOUGHT TO ENJOIN FURTHER VIOL'S OF    THE SIP & TO REQUIRE COMPLIANCE W/FUTURE SEC 114 REQUESTS    . SPECIFICALLY, THE GOV'T SOUGHT TO PLACE THE SOURCE ON      AN EXPEDITIONS COMPLIANCE SCHED FOR INSTALLATION OF A        BAGHOUSE OR ESP & USE OF LOW SULFUR COAL OR DESULFERIZA-     TION EQUIPMENT.                                                NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT ISSUES:                                  THIS ACTION WAS BROUGHT TO ENFORCE FED-APPROVED SIP     REGULATIONS WHICH WERE INVALIDATED BY A STATE COURT FOR      PROCEDURAL DEFICIENCIES. THE ACTION WA

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