# PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33760`
- **Case Number:** 06-1983-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $225K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PPG INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                         PPG OWNS AND OPERATES AN ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE (EDC)/VINYL     CHLORIDE MONOMER (VCM) FACILITY.  EMISSIONS FROM THE EDC/VCM  FACILITY ARE SUBJECT TO THE NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS     FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS (NESHAP), 40 CFR PART 61.       CIVIL SUIT FOR PENALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IS REQUESTED  PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(B)(3) AND (B)(4) OF THE CLEAN AIR    ACT.                                                           CAUSE OF ACTION                                                 THE NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARD FOR VINYL CHLORIDE, 40   CFR 61.60 ET SEQ. WAS PROMULGATED OCTOBER 21, 1976.  AMONG   OTHER THINGS, THE REGULATIONS PROHIBIT VINYL CHLORIDE (VC)   DISCHARGES FROM ANY RELIEF VALVE IN VC SERVICE EXCEPT FOR    EMERGENCIES; LIMIT VC EMISSIONS FROM EQUIPMENT USED IN EDC   PURIFICATION AND IN VC FORMATION AND PURIFICATION TO 10 PPM;  AND LIMIT, TO 10 PPM, VC EMISSIONS REMOVED FROM INPROCESS   WASTEWATER AND DUCTED THROUGH A CONTROL SYSTEM.                  SINCE THE VC STANDARD BECAME EFFECTIVE, 36 VC DIS-       CHARGES, TOTALING 39,078 LBS. OF VC, HAVE BEEN REPORTED AND   REVIEWED.  I HAVE DETERMINED THAT 34 OF THESE DISCHARGES,   TOTALING 34,984 LBS. OF VC, ARE VIOLATIONS OF 61.65(A), AND   THAT THE REMAINING 2 DISCHARGES TOTALING 4,094 LBS. OF VC,  ARE VIOLATIONS OF 61.63(A).

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