# SPRINGFIELD, CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25176`
- **Case Number:** 05-1982-0063
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SPRINGFIELD, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             CITY WATER, LIGHT & POWER CO, THE MUNICIPAL UTILITY FOR SPRINGFIELD, IL, OWNS & OPERATES 2 ELECTRICITY GENERATING    PLANTS, THE LAKESIDE PLANT & THE DALLMAN PLANT. THE DALLMAN  PLANT IS THE NEWER OF THE 2. IT HAS 3 BOILERS, OF WHICH      BOILER #3 IS THE LARGEST, W/A DESIGN CAPACITY FOR PRODUCING  192 MEGAWATTS OF ELECTRIC POWER. DALLMAN BOILER #3 IS SUB-   JECT TO THE NPDS FOR SULFER DIOXIDE, 40 CFR PART 60 ET SEQ.    CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                IN 1976 EPA BROUGHT A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE CITY OF  SPRINGFIELD TO COMPEL IT TO BRING BOILER #3 INTO COMPLIANCE  W/THE SULFUR DIOXIDE NSPS. ON 9/13/77, THE CITY OF SPRING-   FIELD & EPA AGREED TO A CD IN THE CASE. THE DECREE REQUIRED  AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE CITY INSTALL & OPERATE DESUL-   FURIZATION EQUIPMENT & EMISSION MONITORING EQUIPMENT ON      BOILER #3.                                                        THE CITY INSTALLED THE POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT &    CERTIFIED ITS CAPABILITY IN 1/81. THE CITY HAS HOWEVER,      OPERATED THE EQUIPMENT IN A THROUGHLY UNRELIABLE MANNER      SINCE THE CERTIFICATION TEST. AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF THE CITY'S FAILURE, DURING THE PERIOD 1/81 THROUGH 2/82 APPROX   12,000 TONS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE HAVE BEEN EMITTED INTO THE     ATMOSPHERE IN EXCESS OF ALLOWABLE EMISSIONS. IN ADDITION,    THE CITY HAS FAILED TO CERTIFY & OPERATE THE EMISSION MONI-  TORING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED BY THE CD & 

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