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Administrative - Formal · FY1998 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State · 30756

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-1998-0086
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Withdrawn by Region/State
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

THIS SOURCE CONSTRUCTED IN 1990 WITHOUT A MAJOR NON- ATTAINMENT NEW SOURCE PERMIT. IT THEN OPERATED WITHOUT CONTROLS OR OPERATING PERMIT UNTIL 1995. IT WAS EMITTING ROUGHLY 200 TPY OF CARBON DISULFIDE, A HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUNTANT AND PROBLE HUMAN CARCINOGEN. ALTHOUGH IT NOW HAS A PERMIT LIMITING CS2 EMISSIONS TO LESS THAN 100 TPY PLANTWIDE, ITS COMPLIANCE STATUS IS UNCERTAIN. FURTHER, CITIZENS NEAR THE PLANT ARE VERY UPSET WITH THE SOURCE AND OHIO EPA FOR THE YEARS OF OPERATION IN VIOLATION AND THE EXPOSURE SUFFERED. ALTHOUGH INJUNCTIVE RELIEF MAY NOT BE NECESSARY, ANY PENALTY WILL NO DOUBT EXCEED THE ADMINI- STRATIVE THRESHOLD. AECAB PLANS TO MONITOR AMBIENT CS2 EMISSIONS NEAR THE PLANT THIS SUMMER USING THE NEW UV-DOAS MONITOR. IT IS EXPECTED THA AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS WILL BE AT A SAFE LEVEL, BUT THIS IS BY NO MEANS CERTAIN. NSR AND PERMIT VIOLATIONS.

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