# NAVISTAR-1 (INT'L HARVESTER)
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25300`
- **Case Number:** 05-1984-0058
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2.70M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $105.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NAVISTAR CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER MANUFACTURES MEDIUM AND HEAVY DUTY TRUCKS AT ITS SPRINGIELD, OHIO FACILITY.  IN ITS URBANA      ROAD PLANT IT OPERATES COATING LINES FOR APPLYING PAINT TO   CHASSIS, TRUCK BODIES, AND OTHER PARTS.  PURSUANT TO APPLIC- ABLE SECTIONS OF THE FEDERALLY-APPROVED OHIO STATE IMPLEMEN- TATION PLAN, THE AMOUNT OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS        (VOC'S) IN COATINGS USED IN THE PLANT WERE TO HAVE BEEN RE-  DUCED TO 3.5 POUNDS PER GALLON OF COATING BY DECEMBER 31,    1982.  INTERNATIONAL IS A MAJOR SOURCE OF VOC'S, AND ITS     EMISSIONS EXCEED THE ALLOWABLE AMOUNT BY APPROXIMATELY 500   TONS PER YEAR.                                                 U.S. EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NOV) TO INTERNA-    TIONAL ON MARCH 27, 1984.  NUMEROUS COATINGS CONTAINED VOC'S IN EXCESS OF THE 3.5 POUND LIMITATION.  THE COMPANY MAIN-    TAINS THAT THAT RESTRICTION IS TECHNICALLY INFEASIBLE, BUT   DID NOT SUBMIT COMMENTS OR FILE A SECTION 307 PETITION WHEN  U.S. EPA APPROVED THE OHIO SIP.  THE COMPANY HAS, HOWEVER,   UNSUCCESSFULLY SOUGHT VARIANCES FROM OHIO.  THE MOST RECENT  APPLICATION FOR A VARIANCE WAS MADE IN JANUARY 1984.  THE    STATE INFORMED INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER THAT ESSENTIAL DATA   WAS LACKING, AND TO DATE THE COMPANY HAD NOT FURNISHED IT.     THUS FAR, THE COMPANY'S EFFORTS TO OBTAIN LOW SOLVENT      COATINGS HAVE FAILED.  INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER HAS TESTED    VARIOUS PAINTS, BUT HAS RELIED ENTIRELY ON PAINT SUPPLIERS   TO PROVIDE COMPLIANCE COATINGS.  THE C

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