# MOORE AMERICAN GRAPHICS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25267`
- **Case Number:** 05-1984-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $90K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MOORE AMERICAN GRAPHICS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE:                                               MOORE IS A PAPER COATING CO.WHICH EMITS VOLATILE ORGANIC  COMPOUNDS (VOC) WHEN IT MANUFACTURE PAPER BOOK AND MAGAZINE  COVERS.  MOORE EMITS ABOUT 116 TONS PER YEAR (TPY) OF VOC.   THE ILLINOIS STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP) REQUIRES MOORE  TO EMPLOY COATING MATERIALS HAVING LESS THAN 2.9 POUNDS OF   VOC PER GALLON WHICH, AT MOORE'S LEVEL OF PRODUCTION, WOULD  ALLOW ONLY 41 TPY.  THIS WAS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED           BY DECEMBER 31, 1982.                                          CAUSE OF ACTION:                                              MOORE'S EMISSIONS ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE ILLINOIS SIP    AND, BECAUSE MOORE IS A MAJOR SOURCE {I.E. > 100 TPY, SECT   302(J)}, U.S. EPA IS REQUIRED                                TO BRING SUIT TO ABATE THE VIOLATIONS AND RECOVER CIVIL      PENALTIES, UNDER SECTION 113(B) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 USC SECTION 7413(B).  MOORE HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE CDS LIST OF   SIGNIFICANT VIOLATORS.                                                         TO PROPOSED REMEDY:                        MOORE MUST EITHER INSTALL CONTROL EQUIPMENT SUCH AS AFTER-   BURNERS OR CARBON ADSORPTION EQUIPMENT, OR REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF VOC EMITTED BY LOW SOLVENT TECHNOLOGY (LST) (BY RE-       FORMULATING THE COATING USED), TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE.  IN AD DITION,  REG V RECOMMENDS A PENALTY FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES  OF NOT LESS THAN $30,000.                                                 ISSUES OF NATIONAL SIGNIF

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