# FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31780`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0468
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $23K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FREEBURG, VILLAGE OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VIOLATIONS - 1)  FAILURE TO GET A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT PRIOR  TO CONSTRUCTION OF THE TWO NEW GENERATORS.  ARD ENGINEER IS  LOREN DENTON.                                                THIS CASE INVOLVES THE VILLAGE OF FREEBURG (FREEBURG) THAT   OWNS AND OPERATES A POWER (ELECTRICITY) PEAKING PLANT IN     FREEBURG IL WHICH IS IN A MODERATE NON-ATTAINMENT AREA FOR   OZONE.  THE FACILITY HAS A TOTAL OF EIGHT GENERATORS.  SIX   GENERATORS WERE CONSTUCTED DURING THE 1950'S OR 1960'S AND   ARE NOT DIRECTLY AT ISSUE IN THIS CASE.  THE LAST TWO        GERNERATORS WERE CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT A CONSTRUCTION PERMIT   IN MARCH 1997 AND ARE THE SUBJECT OF THE CONTROVERSY AT      HAND.  PLEASE NOTE THAT, ALTHOUGH FREEBURG NEVER HAD A CONST RUCTION PERMIT, IT APPLIED FOR A CONSTUCTION PERMIT SHORTLY  AFTER IT BEGAN CONSTURCTION OF THE TWO GENERATORS.  FREEBURG  HAD PREVIOUSLY FILED AN APPLICATION FOR A TITLE V PERMIT,   (ALTHOUGH IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER FREEBURG EVEN NEEDED    SUCH A PERMIT).  THE STATE OF IL ISSUED THE TILE V PERMIT    BUT NOT THE CONSTRUCTION PERMIT.  CURRENTLY, FREEBURG HAS A  FEDERALLY ENFORCEABLE STATE OPERATING PERMIT (FESOP)         APPLICATION PENDING.  THE FESOP, IF GRANTED, WILL GIVE       FREEBURG A SYNTHETIC MINOR EMISSION LIMITS FOR THE TWO NEW   GENERATORS.                                                  THIS CASE WAS INITIATED BY DINA DALIANIS (AND PROGRAM) IN    1998, AND THE NOV WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1998. AT THE   TIME OF THE ISSUANCE OF THE NOV, EPA

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