# QUEBECOR PETTY PRINTING COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31484`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0106
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $775K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- QUEBECOR PETTY PRINTING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## 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CONDITIONS OF THE CON-      STRUCTION PERMIT (FOR PRESS OP-30201) ISSUED IN 1994, BE-    LIEVING THAT PERMIT HAD BEEN SUPERSEDED BY A 1996 REVISED    OPERATING PERMIT ISSUED BY IEPA.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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