# US STEEL-BAYTOWN (CIC)
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33796`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- U S STEEL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE:                                              U.S. STEEL OPERATES A MINI-MILL NEAR BAYTOWN, TEXAS.  THIS PLANTWAS ONE OF THE STEEL PLANTS COVERED BY A  STEEL         STRETCHOUT  CONSENT DECREE UNDER THE STEEL INDUSTRY COM-     PLAINCE EXTENSION ACT, 42 U.S.C. 7413(E).  THE CONSENT       DECREE WAS ENTERED IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS ON      3/22/83.                                                       THE CONSENT DECREE REQUIRED U.S. STEEL TO COMPLY WITH      SPECIFIC PARTICULATE EMISSION LIMITATIONS OF THE TEXAS       STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.  DURING INSPECTIONS OF THE PLANT  ON 11/2/83 AND 11/17/83, VIOLATIONS OF THE PARTICULATE       EMISSION LIMITATIONS WERE OBSERVED.                            CAUSE OF ACTION:                                             AMONG OTHER FACILITIES, THE U.S. STEEL PLANT HAS 2 ELEC-   TRIC ARC FURNACE (EAF) SHOPS, EACH WITH 2 FURNACES.  THE     #1 EAF SHOP IS SUBJECT ONLY TO THE STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN REQUIREMENTS, WHILE THE #2 SHOP IS ALSO SUBJECT TO FEDERAL   NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.  BOTH SHOPS ARE COVERED    BY THE CONSENT DECREE, BUT VIOLATIONS WERE FOUND AT ONLY THE #1 SHOP.                                                       DURING AN INSPECTION ON 11/2/83, VISIBLE EMISSIONS EX-     CEEDED THE ALLOWABLE OPACITY AT THE STACKS SERVING THE       FURNACES, AND VISIBLE EMISSIONS FROM THE ROOF MONITOR WERE   CONSIDERED TO BE  EXCESSIVE , THE LIMIT APPLICABLE TO THE    MONITOR.  VISIBLE EMISSIONS FROM THE V

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