# YALE POLISHERS & PLATER
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32004`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0714
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $250
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- YALE POLISHERS & PLATER (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CHROME NESHAP VIOLATIONS                                     YALE WAS NOT MAINTAINING SURFACE TENSION READINGS, AS        REQUIRED BY THE CHROME NESHAP (REQUIRED WHEN, AS IN THEIR    CASE, A PERFORMANCE TEST WAS NOT INITIALLY PERFORMED) AND    BY THEIR FESOP.  THEY PURCHASED A STALAGMOMETER TO PERFORM   THE READINGS AND HAVE BEEN KEEPING RECORDS OF THEIR READ-    INGS.  THEIR INITIAL SURFACE TENSION READING OF THE TANK DID NOT SHOW THAT THEY WERE ABOVE THE APPLICABLE SURFACE TENSION LIMIT OF 45 DYNES/CM.  THEREFORE, ANY POLLUTION REDUCTIONS   WOULD BE SPECULATIVE ON OUR PART.  HOWEVER, THIS SURFACE     TENSION MONITORING IS ESSENTIAL TO ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH  THE NESHAP.  THE PENALTY WAS DECREASED IN THIS CASE DUE TO   YALE'S POOR FINANCIAL SITUATION.

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