# UNIROYAL ENGINEERED PRODUCTS
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27100`
- **Case Number:** 05-1989-0039
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $140K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNIROYAL PLASTIC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VINYL COATING OPERATION - EMISSION OF VOC IN EXCESS OF     LIMIT ALLOWED UNDER THE INDIANA SIP.                           THE CO. OPERATES A MAJOR SOURCE OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COM-   POUND EMISSIONS AND WAS, UNTIL RECENTLY, IN VIOLATION OF THE FEDERALLY ENFORCEABLE INDIANA STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN      ( SIP ) FOR VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS).                  A.  BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE CASE                       ON SEPT. 23, 1988, REGION V ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION   TO UNIROYAL FOR VIOLATION OF INDIANA DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL  MANAGEMENT ( IDEM ), RULE 325 IAC 8-2-12 AT ITS MISHAWAKA,   IN, VINYL COATING PLANT.  IDEM RULES 325 IAC 8-2-12 AND 8-1- 1(C) ARE PART OF THE FEDERALLY APPROVED INDIANA SIP AND PART OF THE FEDERALLY APPROVED INDIANA SIP AND LIMIT THE EMISSION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM VINYL PRINTERS.  THE COAT INGS USED BY UNIROYAL DID NOT COMPLY WITH THE LIMITS IN 325  IAC 8-2-12, AND THE SOURCE DID NOT INSTALL CONTROL EQUIPMENT TO LIMIT EMISSIONS.  UNIROYAL RECENTLY ACHIEVED COMPLIANCE   WITH THE SIP REQUIREMENTS BY PERMANENTLY SHUTTING DOWN THEIR NON-COMPLIANT LINES                                             B.  PROPOSED REMEDY                                         IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE COMPLIANCE WITH THE INDIANA SIP, UNIRO YAL HAS AGREED TO THE ENCLOSED CONSENT DECREE, WHICH STATES  THAT THE NON-COMPLYING VINYL PRINTERS WILL REMAIN PERMANENT  LY SHUT DOWN.  UNIROYAL HAS ALSO AGREED TO A PENALTY FOR SET TLEMENT PURPOSES OF $40,000.

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