# SID RICHARDSON CARBON & GASOLINE CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34168`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $77K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SID RICHARDSON CARBON & GASOLINE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SID RICHARDSON CARBON & GASOLINE CO, INC MANUFACTURES CARBON BLACK AT ITS ADDIS, LA PLANT LOCATED IN W BATON ROUGE,       PARRISH.  DURING THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, WASTE GAS        STREAMS CONTAINING ACETYLENE GAS ARE EMITTED TO THE ATMO-    SPHERE.  ACETYLENE IS CURRENTLY CONSIDERED A VOLATILE ORGAN- COMPOUND.  VOCS ARE PRECURSORS IN THE FORMATION OF OZONE,    WHICH IS PRODUCED WHEN NOX COMBINE WITH VOCS IN THE PRE-     SENCE OF SUNLIGHT.  OZONE CAN CAUSE ALTERATIONS IN PULMON-   ARY FUNCTIONS, INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFECTIOUS        DISEASES, AND BIOCHEMICAL ALTERATIONS IN THE LUNGS AND OTHER ORGANS.                                                      *                                                            ON 12/3/82, SID RICHARDSON WAS ISSUED A PSD PERMIT MODIFYING A PREVIOUSLY ISSUED PERMIT TO ENABLE THE ADDIS PLANT TO BURN A PORTION OF ITS ACETYLENE WASTE GAS EMISSIONS BY APPROX 36% WHILE PROVIDING A 20% INCREASE IN PRODUCTION CAPACITY.       NEVERTHELESS, APPROX 1545.5 TONS/YR OF ACTETYLENE WAS GAS    IS NOT BEING BURNED ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF LAQR    22.8; THIS CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF LAQR 22.8 AND THE FED- ERALLY APPROVED LA SIP.                                      *                                                            ON 12/28/82, PURSUANT TO 40 CFR 51.4, THE ASSISTANT SECRE-   TARY OF LDNR APPROVED A HYDROCARBON COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE SUB- MITTED BY SID RICHARDSON FOR ITS ADDIS PLANT.  THIS COMPLI-  ANCE SCHEDULE  EXEMPTED  THE ADDIS P

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