# GENERAL METALS POWDER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27716`
- **Case Number:** 05-1991-0122
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL METALS POWDER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 9/25/90, REGION V ISSUED A COMPLAINT AGAINST RESPONDENT   ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 313 OF EPCRA FOR FAILURE TO   SUBMIT FORM R FOR COPPER, A LISTED TOXIC CHEMICAL, AT ONE OF RESPONDENT'S FACILITIES IN AKRON.  RESPONDENT HAD FILED THE  PROPER FORMS AT ANOTHER OF ITS FACILITIES NEARBY. THE COM-   PLAINT PROPOSED A PENALTY OF $5000.                          -                                                            ON 3/8/91, REGION V FILED A CAFO TO SETTLE THE CASE.  THE    PENALTY PAYMENT WAS REDUCED TO $1000, WHICH INCLUDED AN EBE  (ENVIRONMENTALLY BENEFICIAL EXPENDITURE) MITIGATION BASED ON THE FACT THAT RESPONDENT HAD RECENTLY SPENT $156,000 IN      WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS WHICH     ENABLED RESPONDENT TO REDUCE THE DISCHARGE OF POLLUTANTS,    INCLUDING COPPER, SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW ITS NPDES PERMIT       LIMITS.

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