# CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHICAGO, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29854`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0435
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty & Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** $103K
- **Cost recovery:** $504K
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHICAGO, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
- NIPSCO (settlement)
- STANDARD SCRAP METAL (settlement)
- TRI-STATE METALS (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE IS A CIVIL ACTION SEEKING MONETARY PENALTIES AND   INJUNCTIVERELIEF UNDER SECTION 113(B) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT,  42 U.S.C SEC. 7413(B). THE ACTION ARISES FROM VIOLATIONS OF  THE ILLINOIS STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP) AND THE CLEAN   AIR ACT.  SPECIFICALLY, CIC/CIE OPERATES A SCRAP YARD THAT   RECLAIMS COPPER AND OTHER SCRAP METALS FROM ELECTRIC MOTORS  BY PROCESSING THESE MATERIALS THROUGH ITS METAL SHREDDING    AND SORTING LINES.  CIC/CIE CONSTRUCTED AND OPERATED ITS     METAL SHREDDING AND SORTING LINES WITHOUT OBTAINING THE      CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATING PERMITS REQUIRED BY IPCB RULES    103(A) AND 103(B)(1), RESPECTIVELY, AND OPERATED ITS METALS  SORTING LINES IN VIOLATION OF THE OPACITY LIMIT SET FORTH IN 35 ILL. ADM. CODE SEC 212.123.  IN ADDITION, CIC/CIE FAILED  TO RESPOND TO AN INFORMATION REQUEST ISSUED BY THE REGION    UNDER SECTION 114(A) OF THE ACT, 42 U.S.C. SEC 7414(A), AND  FAILED TO RESPOND TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ISSUED BY THE   REGION UNDER SECTION 113(A)(3) OF THE ACT, 42 U.S.C. SEC     7413(A)(3).  THE INFORMATION REQUEST AND ADMINISTRATIVE      ORDER REQUIRED CIC/CIE TO CONDUCT STACK TESTS ON ITS         SHREDDING AND SORTING LINES AND TO SUBMIT TEST RESULTS TO    U.S. EPA.REFERRAL MADE TO ENFORCE THIS ORDER (SEE 05-94-047  6 - ADM. ORDER).CASE SETTLED.  MOTION TO ENTER THE CONSENT   DECREE WAS FILED ON 2/7/02.

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