# HPA MONON
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31488`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0113
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $3K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HPA MONON (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. EPA RECEIVED A CITIZEN'S COMPLAINT ABOUT THE FACILITY   AND AN INSPECTION WAS PERFORMED.  HIGH OPACITY WAS OBSERVED  EMANATING FROM THE STACK OF THE BOILER AT PLANT 8.  VISIBLE  EMISSION READINGS WERE PERFORMED BY METHOD 9.  STACK TESTING WAS PERFORMED BY THE COMPANY AND THE TEST RESULTS SHOWED     THAT PSC HAD BEEN TRIGGERED FOR PM, PM10, AND CO.  A NOTICE  OF VIOLATION WAS ISSUED TO THE COMPANY FOR OPACITY AND PSD   VIOLATIONS.  THE COMPANY CAME IN FOR A 113 CONFERENCE AND    DISCUSSED THE VIOLATIONS.  AFTER THE CONFERENCE, IT WAS CON- CLUDED THAT U.S. EPA COULD NOT PURSUE THE PSD VIOLATIONS BE- CAUSE THE PERMIT THAT DETERMINED OPERATING CONDITIONS FOR    THE BOILER WRE NEGOTIATED BY MONON CORPORATION (THE PREVIOUS OWNER) AND NOT HPA MONON. WHEN HPA MONON BOUGHT THE COMPANY, IT ONLY PURCHASE THE ASSESTS AND NOT THE LIABILITIES,        THEREFORE, U.S. EPA COULD NOT HOLD HPA MONON TO THE PSD      CONDITIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION PERMIT.  AN AGREED ORDER WAS  NEGOTIATED WITH HPA MONON TO RESOLVE THE CASE WHICH REQUIRED INSTALLATION OF PRESSURE DROP MONITORING DEVICE, AND FOR     HPA MONON TO OBTAIN A PERMIT WHICH SATISFIED HOW IT          OPERATED AND GAVE IT LIMITATIONS TO DETERMINE IN THE FUTURE  IF PSD WILL BE TRIGGERED.

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