# GM CPC PONTIAC FIERO ASSEMBLY PLANT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28324`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-0678
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $63K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GM DISCHARGED ZINC, COPPER, AND LEAD IN AMOUNTS THAT         EXCEEDED ITS NPDES                                           PERMIT EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS DURING THE PERIOD FROM MAY 1989  THROUGH MAY                                                  1992.                                                        ON MARCH 1, 1993, EPA FILED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED, AN    ADMINISTRATIVE                                               COMPLAINT AGAINST GENERAL MOTORS, ALLEGING THAT GM VIOLATED  SECTION                                                      301(A) OF THE CWA BY FAILING TO COMPLY, ON 92 OCCASIONS,     WITH DISCHARGE                                               LIMITS FOR COPPER, LEAD AND ZINC, AS SET FORTH IN A 1988     NPDES PERMIT                                                 FOR GM'S PONTIAC FIERO ASSEMBLY FACILITY IN DETROIT. THE     COMPLAINT                                                    SOUGHT A $125,000 PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATIONS. GM ARGUED THAT THE METALS                                                   IN QUESTION WERE NOT  POLLUTANTS  UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE,                                                    THAT IT WAS NOT  POLLUTANTS  UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE  RECEIVING                                                    WATERS BECAUSE THE METALS ALLEGEDLY WERE CONTAINED IN        RAINFALL AND HAD                                             LEACHED FROM THE METAL ROOF AND GUTTERS OF GM'S BUILDING,    AND THAT THE                        

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