# CHRYSLER CORP/KENOSHA
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26915`
- **Case Number:** 05-1988-0216
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHRYSLER MOTORS CORP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATE VIOLATION DETERMINED: 12/15/87.                         CHRYSLER HAS VIOLATED THE WISCONSIN SIP AT ITS PLANT IN    KENOSHA, WI.  ON DEC. 15, 1987, THE REGION ISSUED A NOTICE   OF VIOLATION TO CHRYSLER BECAUSE EMISSIONS RAN A NEW ANTI-   CHIP COATING LINE AT ITS PLANT DID NOT MEET THE LOWEST ACHIE VABLE EMISSION RATE (LAER), AS REQUIRED BY WISCONSIN SIP     RULE NR 144.393(2B).  ON THAT SAME DATE, THE REGION ISSUED A FINDING OF VIOLATION TO THE WISCONSIN DEPT OF NATURAL RESOUR CES (WDNR) FOR ITS ISSUANCE OF A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT WHICH   DID NOT REQUIRE VOC EMISSIONS FROM CHRYLSER'S ANTI-CHIP COAT ING LINE TO MEET LAER, IN VIOLATION OF WISCONSIN SIP RULE NR 144.393(2B).                                                   AFTER SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS WITH THE STATE, THE REGION WAS   UNABLE TO CONVINCE WDNR THAT THE PERMIT WAS DEFICIENT BE-    CAUSE IT DID NOT REQUIRE LAER.  IN FEBRUARY OF 1988, AFTER   SEVERAL MEETINGS AND TELEPHONE CALLS WITH CHRYSLER, THE COM- PANY ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS CEASING OPERATIONS AT THE KENOSHA PLANT NO LATER THAN DEC. 31, 1988.  IN A LETTER DATE APRIL   20, 1988, CHRYSLER INFORMED THE REGION THAT IT HAD DISMANT-  LED THE ANTI-CHIP COATING LINE.                                BY DISMANTLING THE LINE, CHRYSLER HAS COMPLETED THE STEPS  NECESSARY TO BRING THE PLANT INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE WISCON SIN SIP.  CHRYSLER HAS EXPRESSED A WILLINGNESS TO ENTER A    FEDERALLY ENFORCEABLE CONSENT DECREE TO ENSURE CONTINUED COM PLAINCE FROM NOW UNTIL THE CLOSURE OF 

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