RELIABLE PLATING CORPORATION

Reliable Plating Corporation (Reliable Plating) owns and operates a plating facility that is an area source of hazardous air pollutant emissions at 1538 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois (the Facility), where it conducts, among other things, decorative chromium electroplating. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted an inspection of the Facility on February 7, 2013 to determine, among other things, compliance with the National Emission Standards for Chromium Emissions from Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing Tanks at 40 C.F.R. Part 63, Subpart N (Subpart N). The Facility has five decorative chromium-electroplating tanks (which Reliable Plating identifies as Tanks 2-P-16, 7-P-6, 8-P-5, 8-P-6, and 9-P-7) subject to Subpart N. On June 6, 2013, Reliable Plating provided, in response to an email from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, additional information relating to its recordkeeping practices for these five tanks. Based on information obtained during the February 7, 2013 inspection and the June 6, 2013 email to EPA, Reliable Plating failed to maintain records of the operating time of its five decorative chromium-electroplating tanks, as required by 40 C.F.R. ?? 63.4(a)(2), 63.10(b)(1), 63.340(b), 63.346(a), and 63.346(b)(11). To come into compliance, Reliable Plating will record the process operating time of these tanks and will ensure that the annual certification reports it prepares for Subpart N contain all the require