# WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31964`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0671
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT VIOLATED SIP PROVISIONS FOR PARTICULATE MATTER    DURING JANUARY 1998 STACK TEST.                              ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1999, REGION 5 FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE      PENALTY ORDER AGAINST RESPONDENT WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF     ADMINISTRATION FOR CAA VIOLATIONS AT ITS LACROSSE CAMPUS.    ON FEBRUARY 8, 2000, THE PARTIES FILED A CONSENT AGREEMENT   AND FINAL ORDER TO RESOLVRE THE CAA VIOLATIONS.  RESPONDENT  HAS ALREADY REMITTED PAYMENT OF $7,000, AND MUST NOW COM-    PLETE THE SEP.                                                 ON MARCH 23, 1999, THE U.S. EPA, REGION 5, ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (UW) FOR VIOLA-  TIONS OF CLEAN-AIR REGULATIONS AT IT'S HEATING PLANT IN      LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN.  SPECIFICALLY, THE LA CROSSE CAMPUS    HEATING PLANT, WHICH CONSISTS OF TWO COAL-FIRED BOILERS AND  ONE NATURAL GAS BOILER, EXCEEDED THE STATE'S MASS PARTICU-   LATE LIMIT DURING STACK TESING OF COAL-FIRED BOILER NO. 2 IN JANUARY 1998.  ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1999, THE U.S. EPA, REGION 5 ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY ORDER TO UW IN THE AMOUNT   OF $28,000.  THIS CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER REPRE-   SENTS THE NEGOTIATED FINAL SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. EPA   AND UW EFFECTIVELY CLOSING OUT THIS CASE.  UW HAS AGREED TO  PAY A PENALTY OF $7,000 AND PERFORM A $35,009 SEP.

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