# WESTERN ROTO ENGRAVERS (WRE/COLORTECH)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31611`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0268
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $18K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WESTERN ROTO ENGRAVERS (WRE/COLORTECH) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ANDRE SAUGEVIETIS HAS BEEN CHIEF COUNSEL TO THE CHROMIUM     MACT WORKGROUP.                                              VIOLATIONS OF CHROME NESHAP.                                 WRE/COLORTECH, INC. (WRE/COLORTECH) IS A METAL PLATING       FACILITY WITH HARD CHROMIUM ELECTROPLATING TANKS THAT ARE    SUBJECT TO THE CHROME PLATING NESHAP (40 C.F.R.  63.340-     347).  THE FACILITY IS CONSIDERED A SMALL, AREA SOURCE AND   MUST, THEREFORE, MEET THE LEAST STRINGENT OF THE EMISSION    LIMITS SPECIFIED IN THE CHROME PLATING NESHAP, 0.03 MG/      DSCM.  WRE/COLORTECH USES A COMPOSITE MESH PAD SCRUBBER      SYSTEM (CMP) FOLLOWED BY A PRE-FILTER AND A HEPA FILTER TO   CONTROL CHROMIUM EMISSIONS FROM ITS HARD CHROMIUM ELECT-     ROPLATING TANKS.                                             WRE/COLORTECH VIOLATED 40 C.F.R. PART 63 SUBPART N, 63.340-  347 (THE CHROME PLATING NESHAP).                             SPECIFICALLY, WRE/COLORTECH WAS CITED FOR THE FOLLOWING:     1) VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R.  63.343(D) FOR FAILURE TO APPLY    FOR AND OBTAIN ADMINISTRATOR'S APPROVAL FOR THE FACILITY'S   EMPLOYED AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DEVICE.                       2) VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R  63.344(C) FOR FAILURE TO PROPERLY  EMPLOY TESTING METHOD 306 OR 306(A), WHICH STATES THAT       SAMPLING TIME SHALL BE AT LEAST 120 MINUTES, AND SAMPLE      VOLUME SHALL BE AT LEAST 1.70 DSCM (60 DSCF).  THE INITIAL   COMPLIANCE TESTING WAS PERFORMED INCORRECTLY, WITH A SAMP-   LING TIME OF ONLY 60 MINUTES, AND SA

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