# BATON ROUGE, CITY OF
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34021`
- **Case Number:** 06-1986-0035
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $750K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BATON ROUGE, CITY OF (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            DEFENDANT:                                                   CITY OF BATON ROUGE. LA OWNS AND OPERATES THREE WASTEWATER   TREATMENT PLANTS, TWO OF WHICH ARE A PART OF THIS REFERRAL.  *                                                            VIOLATIONS:                                                  VIOLATION OF SECTION 309 OF THE ACT, BY FAILING TO COMPLY    WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF TWO AOS.                            *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF:                                             SETTLEMENT IN THE FORM OF A CONSENT DECREE AND A MINIMUM     CIVIL PENALTY IN THE AMOUNT OF $400,000.                     *                                                            RECENT CONTACT W/DEFENDANTS:                                 THE MOST RECENT MEETING WITH CITY REPS WAS HELD ON AUG 12,   1986, SUBSEQUENT TO WHICH THIS ACTION WAS RECOMMENDED.       *                                                            THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, LA OWNS AND OPERATES THE TWO        MAJOR TREATMENT FACILITIES IN QUESTION, THE NORTH PLANT AND  THE SOUTH PLANT.  NPDES PERMIT NO. LA0036439 WAS ISSUED FOR  THE NORTH TREATMENT PLANT AND PERMIT NO.  LA0036412 WAS      ISSUED FOR THE SOUTH PLANT.                                  *                                                            SYNOPSIS:                           

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