# AMERICAN CHEMICAL SERVICE, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28109`
- **Case Number:** 05-1992-0287
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CHEMICAL SERVICE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ACS OPERASE AN ORGANIC CHEMICAL PLANT IN GRIFFITH , LAKE COUNTY,INDIANA.  THE FACILITY, LOCATED IN THE NDIN, IS AN    INDUSTRIAL USER OFTHE HAMMOND SANITARY DISTRICT.                 REGION 5 HAS DOCUMENTED VIOLATIONS OF ACS'S IU PERMIT    ISSUED BY HSD. IN ADDITION, THE ACS FACILITY IS SUBJECT TO   FEDERAL CATEGORICALPRETREATMENT STANDARDS FOR ORGANIC        CHEMICALS, PLASTICS, AND SYNTHETICFIBERS POINT SOURCE        CATEGORY UNDER 40 CFR PART 414.  REGION 5 HASSIMILARLY       DOCUMENTED VIOLATIONS OF THE OCPSF REGULATIONS ATTENDANT     WITHTHE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OF THE ACS FACILITY.               REGION 5 HAS REVIEWED DATA GENERATED BY ACS ITSELF AS    WELL AS DATAGENERATED BY HSD IN ASSEMBLING THIS CASE AND     DOCUMENTING THESEVIOLATIONS.                                     THE REFERRAL SUGGESTS THAT THE INSTALLATION OF           ADDITIONALPRETREATMENT EQUIPMENT MAY BE NECESSARY TO BRING   ACS INTO COMPLIANCEWITH ITS HSD-ISSUED IU PERMIT AND THE     FEDERAL REGULATIONS.                                             AMERICAN CHEMICAL SERVICE, INC. (ACS) OPERATES A         SPECIALTY ORGANICCHEMICAL PLANT IN GRIFFITH, LAKE COUNTY,    INDIANA.  ACS'S GRIFFFITHFACILITY DISCHARGES WASTEWATERS TO  THE SEWER SYSTEM OF THE HAMMONDSANITARY DISTRICT, AND IS     PERMITTED, REGULATED AND CONTROLLED THROUGHHSD'S INDUSTRIAL  PRETREATMENT PROGRAM.  ADDITIONALLY, THE FACILITY ISSUBJECT  TO FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDRDS FOR THE         ORGANICCHEMICALS, PLASTICS, AND SYNTHEC 

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