# TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY-RANTOUL PRODUCTS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31890`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0590
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $81K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE -RANTOUL PRODUCTS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON DECEMBER 30, 1998, A NOTICE OF VIOLATION WAS ISSUED BY    U.S. EPA TO TEXTRON FOR USE OF PAINTS WITH CONCENTRATIONS    OF VOLATILE ORGANIC MATERIAL THAT EXCEEDED THE LIMITS SET    IN ITS CONSTRUCTION PERMITS.  ON MAY 6, 1999, U.S. EPA       ISSUED AN AMENDED NOTICE OF VIOLATION THAT INCLUDED ADDIT-   IONAL MONTHS OF VIOLATIONS THAT U.S. EPA BECAME AWARE OF     AFTER THE ORIGINAL NOV.  U.S. EPA ALLEGES THAT FROM AUGUST   1995, UNTIL JANUARY 1999, TEXTRON VIOLATED THE VOM LIMITS IN ITS CONSTRUCTION PERMITS DURING 30 MONTHS.  DURING 3 OF      THESE 30 MONTHS, TEXTRON VIOLATED THE CONSTRUCTION PERMITS   IN BOTH PAINT SPRAY BOOTHS 1 AND 2.  ON JUNE 9, 1999, U.S.   EPA REQUESTED A WAIVER OF THE 12-MONTH FILING REQUIREMENT    IN SECTION 113(D)(1) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, WHICH WAS         APPROVED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ON JULY   1, 1999. U.S. EPA DETERMINED THAT THE CAA STATIONARY SOURCE  CIVIL PENALTY POLICY CALLED FOR A PENALTY AMOUNT OF          $187,775.  BUT, BASED ON TEXTRON'S GOOD FAITH AND COOPERAT-  ION, AND POTENTIAL LITIGATION RISK, U.S. EPA MITIGATED THE   PENALTY TO $80,500 FOR SETTLEMENT, PURSUANT TO THE PENALTY   POLICY.  ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1999, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR,  U.S. EPA REGION 5, SIGNED A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL      ORDER UNDER SECTION 113 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT,  PURSUANT TO   WHICH TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY--RANTOUL PRODUCTS, AGREES   TO PAY A CIVIL PENALTY OF $80,500.  THE COMPLAINT AND CAFO   WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON SEPTEMBER 29,

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