# TWIN COUNTY RECYCLING CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3411`
- **Case Number:** 02-1989-0048
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $7K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TWIN COUNTY RECYCLING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SECTION 114 OF THE ACT WAS VIOLATED BY TWIN COUNTY BECAUSE THE ASPHALT PRODUCTION FACILITY FAILED TO CONDUCT A SERIES   OF STACK EMISSIONS TESTS FOR PARTICULATE AND VOLATILE ORGAN- IC COMPOUNDS ( VOC ) AS REQUIRED BY EPA'S FEBRUARY 18, 1988  SECTION 114 REQUEST (EPA REFERENCE NO. 114 P-88-26).  EPA    ISSUED A COMPLIANCE ORDER ON AUGUST 22, 1988 (INDEX NUMBER   80244) TO TWIN COUNTY, CITING ITS FAILURE TO CONDUCT THE     STACK TESTS AND ORDERED IT TO SUBMIT THE TESTING PROTOCOL,   CONDUCT THE TESTS AND SUBMIT THE RESULTS TO EPA AND THE NEW  YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ACCORD-  ING TO THE TIMEFRAME SET OUT IN THE ORDER.  TWIN COUNTY      FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER AND TO DATE HAS NOT CONDUCT- ED THE STACK TESTING.                                          INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IS SOUGHT TO REQUIRE TWIN COUNTY TO COM- PLY WITH THE FEBRUARY 18, 1988 SECT 114 REQUEST, THE AUGUST  22, 1988 ORDER AND ALL FUTURE INFORMATION REQUESTS ISSUED    PURSUANT TO SECT 114 OF THE ACT.  IN ADDITION, EPA WILL SEEK CIVIL PENALTIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $39,000 BASED UPON EPA'S    CLEAN AIR ACT CIVIL PENALTY POLICY (MARCH 1987).               AS DISCUSSED IN THE REFERRAL, TWIN COUNTY IS A HOT MIX     ASPHALT PLANT WHICH EPA HAS REQUIRED TO TEST FOR PARTICULATE AND VOC EMISSIONS.  REGION II HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY TESTED      ASPHALT PLANTS FOR VOC; HOWEVER, GIVEN THE EMISSIONS OFFSET  REQUIREMENTS OF PART 231 OF THE NEW YORK SIP, AND THE IN-    TRANSIGNET OZONE NONATTAINMENT IN THE 

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