# GENERAL MOTORS CORP - ARLINGTON
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33797`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0011
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUMMARY                                                    GMC OWNS AND OPERATES THIS AUTOMOBILE MANUFATURING PLANT,    WHICH IS INVOLVED IN ELECTROPLATING AND METAL FINISHING AS   PART OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS.  THE FACILITY DISCHARGES  INTO A POTW AND IS THEREFORE REQUIRED TO MEET ALL PRETREAT-  MENT STANDARDS OF SECT. 307 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT.  GMC     NOTIFIED REGION VI THROUGH BASELINE MONITORING REPORTS THAT  IT WOULD NOT COMPLY WITH THE ELECTROPLATING CATEGORICAL PRE- TREATMENT STANDARDS BY JULY 1,1984.  IT ANTICIPATES COMPLIAN CE IN APPROX. 14 MONTHS, DURING WHICH TIME THE COMPANY IN-   TENDS TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSIVE PRETREATMENT FACILITIES.  HAD   GMC INITIATED ITS COMPLIANCE PROGRAM IN JULY 1982 WHEN THE   THIRD CIRCUIT MADE ITS RULING, AND HAD IT EARNESTLY PURSUED  A COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MEET THE   JULY 1984 DEADLINE FOR ELECTROPLATING STANDARDS.  EPA REG. 6 RECORDS INDICATE THAT GMC DID NOT BEGIN PRELIMINARY ENGIN-   EERING WORK UNTIL 10/83.  DUE TO THE COMPANY'S DELAYED COMP- LIANCE, IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE LEAD, NICKLE, ZINC AND    AND TOTAL TOXIC PARAMETERS OF THE ELECTROPLATING AND METAL   FINISHING STANDARDS WILL BE VIOLATED.                        THIS REFERRAL IS RECOMMENDED AS A CLASS 1 ACTION.  THE CASE  IS OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE SINCE IT IS BUT ONE OF 18 GMC    PLANTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT WILL FAIL TO MEET PRETREATMEN T STANDARDS BY 7/1/84.  THE REGION IS RECOMMENDING A CONSENT DECREE ASSESSING A CIVIL PENALTY IN TH

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