# METROPOLIS - CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26785`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0074
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $18K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATE VIOLATION DETERMINED: 03/01/88; DATE DOCUMENTS RECEI- VED BY ORC: 03/30/88.                                          THE CITY OF METROPOLIS, IL OWNS AND OPERATES A PUBLICLY    OWNED TREATMENT WORK (POTW).  FOR THE PAST NINE (9) MONTHS,  METROPOLIS HAS BEEN IN VIOLATION OF THE COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE  IN ITS NAT'L POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES)  PERMIT IL 0029874.                                             ON JANUARY 21, 1988, THE USEPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE    ORDER (AO) TO METROPOLIS REQUIRING IT TO EXPLAIN ITS NONCOM  PLIANCE, AND TO SUBMIT AN EXPEDITED COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE.       METROPOLIS RESPONDED TO THE AO AND ADMITTED THAT IT WOULD  NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLY WITH THE SCHEDULE IN ITS NPDES PERMIT, INCLUDING THE FINAL COMPLIANCE DATE OF JULY 1, 1988.           BECAUSE COMPLIANCE BEYOND JULY 1, 1988, REQUIRES JUDICIAL  APPROVAL, WE ARE PROPOSING  PRE-FILING NEGOTIATIONS.  IF THE MATTER CANNOT BE SETTLED, A LITIGATION REFERRAL WILL BE PRE- PARED FOR FILING AS A CIVIL ACTION.

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