# CATERPILLAR TRACTOR
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25161`
- **Case Number:** 05-1982-0045
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $225K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE                                                  CATERPILLER TRACTOR OWNS & OPERATES A GREY-IRON         FOUNDRY AT MAPLETON, IL. THE FACILITY INCLUDES A HEATING     PLANT WHICH CONSISTS OF 5 SPREADER STOKER BOILERS, 4 OF      WHICH (BOILERS #2-#5) ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS REFERRAL.      EACH HAS A DESIGN HEAT INPUT RATE GREATER THAN 250 MILLION   BTU PER HR. (MM BTU/HR) AND WAS DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED     AFTER 8/17/71, THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE FEDERAL NEW         SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR FOSSIL FUEL-FIRED STEAM      GENERATORS (40 CFR PART 60, SUBPART D). REG. 5 HAS FOUND     THE BOIULERS TO BE SUBJECT TO THAT STANDARD. THESE BOIL-     ERS ARE SUBJECT TO IL. AIR POLLUTION CONTROL REGULATION      203(G)(1)(D), WHICH LIMITS PARTICULATE EMISSIONS FROM COM-   BUSTION SOURCES BURNING SOLID FUEL CONSTRUCTED AFTER 5/31    72. RULE 203 (G)(1)(D) IS PART OF THE IL. STATE IMPLEMEN-    TATION PLAN (SIP).                                                CATERPILLAR INSTALLED MULTICLONES FOLLOWED BY DUAL      ALKALI FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION (FGD) SYSTEMS ON EACH OF     MAPLETON BOILERS TO CONTROL BOTH SULFUR DIOXIDE AND PAR-     TICULATE EMISSIONS. (CATERPILLAR ALSO INSTALLED THESE SYS    TEMS ON 12 OTHER BOILERS LOCATED AT 4 OTHER PLANTS IN IL.)   BOILERS #2 & #3 AT MAPLETON WERE COMPLETED IN LATE 1978-     EARLY 1979. PERFORMANCE TESTS WERE PERFORMED ON THESE        BOILERS IN JUNE-JULY 1979. THE TESTS SHOWED COMPLIANCE       WITH THE NSPS SULFUR DIOXIDE LIMITATIO

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