# USX-GARY
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29494`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0538
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $2.90M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $72.90M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- USX (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

USX OWNS AND OPERATES A FULLY INTEGRATED STEEL MILL IN GARY, INDIANA.  THE FACILITY DISCHARGES WASTEWATER SUBJECT TO A    NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES)      PERMIT INTO LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE GRAND CALUMET RIVER.  THE  FACILITY ALSO PROCESSES AND USES SEVERAL TOXIC CHEMICALS AT  THE FACILITY WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO EPCRA REPORTING            REQUIREMENTS.  A LITIGATION REPORT DOCUMENTS ADDITIONAL      VIOLATIONS OF THE CWA BY USX SINCE THE ORIGINAL MARCH 31,    1995, LITIGATION REPORT.  THESE VIOLATIONS ARE OF THE SAME   TYPE AS THOSE DESCRIBED IN THE ORIGINAL REPORT.              SPECIFICALLY, USX CONTINUES TO VIOLATE TERMS IN ITS NPDES    PERMIT, INCLUDING FINAL EFFLUENT LIMITS AND BYPASS AND       MONITORING PROVISIONS, AND HAS HAD A NUMBER OF UNAUTHORIZED  DISCHARGES OF OIL FROM ITS GARY WORKS FACILITY.  A COMPLAINT HAS NOT YET BEEN FILED IN THIS CASE.  IN ADDITION, THE       LITIGATION REPORT DOCUMENTS NEWLY DISCOVERED VIOLATIONS OF   EPCRA.  SPECIFICALLY, USX HAS FAILED TO FILE FORM R REPORTS  FOR SEVERAL TOXIC CHEMICALS USED AND PROCESSED AT ITS GARY   WORKS FACILITY, IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 313 OF EPCRA, 42     U.S.C. SEC. 11023.  THE INJUNCTIVE RELIEF NECESSARY TO       RESOLVE THE CWA VIOLATIONS CONSISTS OF AN ORDER COMPELLING   ACTIONS TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH EFFLUENT LIMITS APPLICABLE TO THE FACILITY, AS WELL AS MEASURES AND MONITORING          REQUIREMENTS TO STOP THE DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM CERTAIN       FACILITY OUTFALLS.  THE BOTTOM LINE 

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