# TIODIZE/MICHIGAN INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30739`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0067
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $40K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $20K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TIODIZE/MICHIGAN INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. EPA CITED TIODIZE MICHIGAN, INC., FOR CLEAN AIR ACT     VIOLATIONS AT ITS METAL COATING PLANT, 28966 WALL ST.,       WIXON, MI, PROPOSING A #40,388 PENALTY.  TIODIZE OPERATES    TWO SURFACE COATING LINES, WHICH MUST MEET STATE LIMITS ON   VOLATILE ORGANIZ COMPOUNDS CONTAINED IN THE COATINGS AND     IN EMISSIONS FROM THE LINES.  EPA NOTIFIED TIODIZE LAST      SEPTEMBER THAT IT HAD VIOLATED MICHIGAN REGULATIONS BY       USING VOC COATINGS THAT EXCEEDED THE STATE LIMIT AND BY      ALLOWING VOC EMISSIONS THAT EXCEEDED PERMITS LIMITS.         TIODIZE HAS AGREED TO REFORMULTE THE COATINGS USED AT THE    PLANT TO MEET VOC EMISSION STANDARDS.                        TIODIZE OWNS AND OPERATES TWO SURFACE COATING LINES AT ITS   FACILITY IN WIXOM MICHIGAN.  THE COATING LINES ARE           REGULATED BY THE MICHIGAN SIP RULE R336.1621 WHICH LIMITS    THE VOLATILE ORGANIZ COMPOUND CONTENT OF THE COATINGS USED   AT SUCH PROCESSES.  TIODIZE WAS CITED FOR VIOLATING THE VOC  LIMITS CONTAINED IN THE STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP)      AND ITS PERMIT TO INSTALL ISSUED PURSUANT TO THE SIP.  TO    TIODIZE OWNS AND OPERATES TWO SURFACE COATING LINES AT ITS   FACILITY IN WIXOM MICHIGAN.  THE COATING LINES ARE REGU-     LATED BY THE MICHIGAN SIP RULE R336.1621 WHICH LIMITS THE    VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND CONTENT OF THE COATINGS USED IN    SUCH PROCESSES.  TIODIZE WAS CITED FOR VIOLATING THE VOC     LIMITS CONTAINED IN THE STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP) AND  ITS PERMIT TO INSTALL ISSUED PURSUAN

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