# TEXAS MUNICIPAL POWER AGENCY
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33810`
- **Case Number:** 06-1984-0024
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $26K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TEXAS MUNICIPAL POWER AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL POWER AUTHORITY ( TMPA ) WAS CREATED BY  THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.  TMPA PROVIDES ELECTRIC POWER TO THE  TEXAS CITIES OF GARLAND, DENTON, GREENVILLE AND BRYAN.  IT   OWNS AND OPERATES A STEAM ELECTRIC POWER PLANT (GIBBONS      CREEK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION  GCSES ) IN GRIMES COUNTY, TX.  GCSES OPERATES UNDER NPDES PERMIT NO. TX0074438 WHICH WAS    ISSUED IN JANUARY OF 1979 BY EPA AND WAS REISSUED IN APRIL   1984.  ONE OUTFALL AT THE PLANT (301) HAS VIOLATED LIMITS    ESTABLISHED FOR BOD, TSS ON A CONSISTENT BASIS SINCE         NOVEMBER, 1982.  THAT OUTFALL IS THE SANITARY SEWAGE OUTFALL AND ACCOMODATES A 6,000 GALLON PER DAY PACKAGE SEWAGE TREAT- MENT PLANT.  IN ADDITION, LIMITS FOR PH MINIMUM WERE VIOLA-  TED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1982, AND JANUARY, MARCH AND    APRIL 1983.  TMPA IS CURRENTLY MODIFYING THE FACILITY, AND   STATES THAT IT WILL BE IN COMPLIANCE BY MARCH OF 1985.  DUE  TO THE PAST HISTORY OF THE AUTHORITY, THE REGION HAS         LEGITIMATE REASONS TO DOUBT THIS ASSERTION.                       ON MAY 18, 1983, THE REGION ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE    ORDER TO TMPA WHICH REQUIRED THEM TO SUBMIT A CRITICAL PATH  SCHEDULE FOR COMPLIANCE.  THE SCHEDULE WAS SUBMITTED AND     INDICATED THAT COMPLIANCE WOULD BE REACHED BY JANUARY 15,    1984.  IT WAS NOT.                                                THE PROBLEMS WITH THE PLANT STEM FROM DESIGN            DEFICIENCIES, NON-OPERATIONAL PORTIONS OF THE SEWAGE TREAT-  MENT SYSTEM AND INCORRECTLY ROUTED D

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