# AMERICAN CYANAMID CO.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `33892`
- **Case Number:** 06-1985-0009
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN CYANAMID CO.
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE:                                                   AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY OWNS AND OPERATES A CHEMICAL  PLANT IN WESTWEGO, LOUISIANA WHICH IS IN VIOLATION OF THE    LOUISIANA SIP REGULATION 22.3, WHICH IS AN EQUIPMENT STAN-   DARD.  AMERICAN CYANAMID PRODUCES ACRYLONITRILE (ACN)        AND STORES IT IN 13 FIXED ROOF STORAGE TANKS WHICH ARE       NOT EQUIPPED WITH ANY OF THE CONTROL DEVICES LISTED IN       LOUISIANA REGULATION 22.3.  REGULATION 22.3 REQUIRES THAT    TANKS WHICH STORE VOC WITH GREATER THAN 40,000 GALLON        CAPACITY BE EQUIPPED WITH AN INTERNAL FLOATING ROOF, AN      EXTERNAL FLOATING ROOF OR A VAPOR RECOVERY SYSTEM.           EACH OF THESE 14 TANKS ARE FIXED INSTALLED WITHOUT AN        INTERNAL FLOATING ROOF AND VENT DIRECTLY TO THE ATMOSPHERE,  THUS, A VIOLATION OF LOUISIANA REGULATION 22.3.  AMERICAN    CYANAMID IS LOCATED IN JEFFERSON PARISH WHICH IS CLASSIFIED  AS NON ATTAINMENT FOR OZONE.  VOC EMISSIONS ARE A PRECURSOR  TO THE FORMATION OF OZONE, WHICH IS FORMED WHEN VOC IS COM-  BINED WITH NITROGEN OXIDES IN THE PRESENCE OF SUNLIGHT.      EPA ISSUED A SECTION 120 NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE TO          AMERICAN CYANAMID ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1984.                          CAUSE OF ACTION:                                             AMERICAN CYANAMID'S STORAGE TANKS ARE NOT PROPERLY      CONTROLLED AS REQUIRED BY THE LOUISIANA SIP.  BECAUSE IT IS  A MAJOR SOURCE, SECTION 120 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT AUTHORIZES  EPA TO IMPOSE AN ASSESSMENT ON THE S

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