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QUEBECOR PETTY PRINTING COMPANY

Administrative - Formal · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 31484

$10K
Penalty
Cost recovery
$775K
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
05-1999-0106
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

BECAUSE THE COMPANY DID NOT BELIEVE THAT ITS 2 FACILITIES CONSTITUTED A SINGLE SOURCE, THE RESPONDENT FAILED TO OBTAIN PSD CONSTRUCTION PERMITS BEFORE INSTALLING 3 PRINTING PRESSES. ON DECEMBER 30, 1998, U.S. EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY ORDER ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $60,500 TO QUEBECOR- PETTY PRINTING COMPANY (QUEBECOR) OF EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS. THE ORDER WAS ISSUED TO QUEBECOR FOR VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL RULES REQUIRING PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION (PSD) PERMITS TO BE ISSUED PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION OF APPLI- CABLE SOURCES. IN 1994, 1995, AND 1997, QUEBECOR RECEIVED STATE CONSTRUCT- ION PERMITS FOR THREE PRESSES WHICH WERE NOT REQUESTED OR ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PSD PERMIT PROGRAM. THIS WAS RESULT OF A CLASSIFICATION BY IEPA OF THE QUEBECOR FACILITY AS TWO SEPARATE SOURCES OPERATING UNDER TWO SEPARATE STATE OPERATING PERMITS. PRESENTLY, U.S. EPA AND IEPA HAVE AGREED THAT THE TWO QUEBECOR BUILDINGS ARE ONE STATIONARY EMISSION SOURCE. HOWEVER, A REVISED TITLE V PERMIT APPLI- CATION HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED. QUEBECOR ALSO VIOLATED OPERATING CONDITIONS OF THE CON- STRUCTION PERMIT (FOR PRESS OP-30201) ISSUED IN 1994, BE- LIEVING THAT PERMIT HAD BEEN SUPERSEDED BY A 1996 REVISED OPERATING PERMIT ISSUED BY IEPA. PRESENTLY, THE 1994 CON- STRUCTION PERMIT HAS NOT BEEN REVISE

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