# GENERAL MOTORS - LORDSTOWN
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26245`
- **Case Number:** 05-1986-0454
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1.50M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS - LORDSTOWN (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VOC VIOLATIONS OF STATE SIP.  COMPANY IS PRESENTLY SEEKING SIP VARIANCE.                                                     GENERAL MOTORS ( GM LORDSTOWN,   GENERAL MOTORS,   THE  COMPANY ) MANUFACTURES JEEPS, CARS AND VANS AT ITS LORDSTOWN PLANT.  IT OPERATES A NUMBER OF AUTOMOBILE COATING LINES IN  THIS FACILITY.  GM LORDSTOWN IS LOCATED IN TRUMBULL COUNTY,  AND IS PART OF THE YOUNGSTOWN URBAN NONATTAINMENT AREA.           ON AUGUST 7, 1986, U.S. EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLA-   TION (NOV) TO GENERAL MOTORS LORDSTOWN (ATTACHMENT 11) FOR   GENERATING VOC EMISSIONS IN EXCESS OF THE LIMITS PERMISSIBLE UNDER THE OHIO SIP.  THE APPLICABLE SIP REGULATIONS, OAC     RULES 3745-21-09(C) (I) (C) AND OAC 3745-21-09(C) (I) (D)    (ATTACHMENT 4) LIMIT THE CONTENT OF TOPCOAT TO 2.8 POUNDS OF VOC PER GALLON OF COATING, EXCLUDING WATER, AND 4.8 POUNDS   OF VOC PER GALLON OF FINAL REPAIR COAT, EXCLUDING WATER.     THE TOP COAT GENERAL MOTORS USES AT ITS LORDSTOWN FACILITY   HAS A VOC CONTENT OF 5.72 POUNDS PER GALLON, AND THE FINAL   REPAIR COAT IN USE CONTAINS 6.8 POUNDS PER GALLON.

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