# GENERAL MOTORS CORP - NORWOOD
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25276`
- **Case Number:** 05-1984-0034
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE                                      GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION OWNS AND OPERATES NUMEROUS   MAJOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO THE CATE-   GORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS FOR ELECTROPLATING BECAUSE    THEY CONTAIN ELECTROPLATING OPERATIONS AND DISCHARGE WASTE-  WATER TO PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.  ONE OF THESE       PLANTS IS THE GM ASSEMBLY DIVISION, NORWOOD PLANT.  THIS     PLANT DISCHARGES PROCESS WASTEWATERS TO THE METROPOLITAN     SEWER DISTRICT OF CINCINNATI.  THE NORWOOD PLANT HAS 2.6     MILLION SQUARE FEET OF PRODUCTION AREA AND HAS A TOTAL       PLANT WASTEWATER FLOW OF 832,000 GALLONS PER DAY, APPROXI-   MATELY 162,000 OF WHICH IS SUBJECT TO THE ELECTROPLATING     STANDARDS.                                                        GENERAL MOTORS HAS SUBMITTED BASELINE MONITORING RE-    PORTS FOR THE NORWOOD PLANT WHICH INDICATE THAT THE PLANT    WILL EXCEED THE ELECTROPLATING PRETREATMENT STANDARDS FOR    ZINC, LEAD AND TOTAL METALS BY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS BEGIN-    NING JUNE 30, 1984.  REGION V BELIEVES THAT GENERAL MOTORS'  FAILURE TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE RESULTS FROM ITS FAILURE TO    TAKE ANY ACTION FOR ALMOST A YEAR AFTER IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE ELECTROPLATING STANDARDS WOULD APPLY TO ITS FACILITIES.  COMPLIANCE SCHEDULES SUBMITTED BY GMC INDICATE THAT GMC WILL MISS THE COMPLIANCE DATE BY ALMOST 15 MONTHS.  GENERAL       MOTORS IS HANDLING PRETREATMENT MATTERS ON A CORPORATE-WIDE  SCALE, AND SEVERAL OF ITS PLANTS ARE P

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