# CROWN ENAMELING, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25302`
- **Case Number:** 05-1984-0060
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $80K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CROWN ENAMELING INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE                                                  CROWN IS A COATER OF METALLIC SURFACES, IN PARTICULAR   SMALL INTERIOR PARTS FOR AUTOMOBILES, WHICH USES VOLATILE    ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOC).  CROWN EMITS APPROXIMATELY 171 TONS PER YEAR OF VOC.  THE MICHIGAN STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN     (SIP) REQUIRES CROWN TO EMPLOY COATING MATERIALS HAVING      LESS THAN 3.0 POUNDS OF VOC PER GALLON.  AT CROWN'S LEVEL    OF PRODUCTION, THIS WOULD EQUATE TO 35 TONS PER YEAR.  THIS  WAS TO HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED BY DECEMBER 31, 1983.                CAUSE OF ACTION                                                 CROWN'S EMISSIONS ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE MICHIGAN SIP  AND, BECAUSE CROWN IS A MAJOR SOURCE, U.S. EPA IS REQUIRED   TO BRING SUIT TO ASBATE THE VIOLATIONS AND RECOVER CIVIL     PENALTIES, UNDER SECTION 113 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 7413.                                                  PROPOSED REMEDY                                                 IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE WITH THE MICHIGAN SIP,   CROWN COULD EITHER INSTALL CONTROL EQUIPMENT SUCH AS AFTER-  BURNERS OR CARBON ADSORPTION EQUIPMENT, OR REDUCE THE A-     MOUNT OF VOC EMITTED BY REFORMULATING THE COATINGS USED.     CROWN IS PROPOSING, HOWEVER, TO CLOSE THIS FACILITY AND BUY  OR BUILD ANOTHER FACILITY.  THE PROCESS WILL REQUIRE APPROXI MATELY TWO YEARS.                                                 REGION V RECOMMENDS A PENALTY FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES   OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000 AND A CONSEN

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