# GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34243`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0217
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY ( GRDA ),  AN AGENCY OF THE STATE  OF OKLAHOMA, RECEIVED APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT A 520-MEGWATT,   COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNIT ON APRIL 9, 1982.  THE   UNIT, KNOWN AS UNIT 2, IS LOCATED AT GRDA'S CHOUTEAU,        OKLAHOMA SITE.  DURING THE CONTRACTOR'S GURANTEED PERFORM-   ANCE TESTING OF UNIT 2 IN AUGUST 1986,  THERE WERE PROBLEMS  WITH HIGH SPEED JOURNAL BEARING IN THE ATOMIZER MACHINES     IN THE FUEL GAS DESALFURIZATION SYSTEM ( FGDS ).   ACCORDING TO GRDA,  SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMTS WERE MADE TO RECTIFY  THE PROBLEM BEFORE THE CONTRACTOR CONCLUDED THAT ALL ATOM-   IZER MACHINES IN THE FGDS WERE ON THE VERGE OF CATACLYSMIC   FAILURE AND THAT ALL THE ATOMIZER MACHINE WOULD HAVE TO BE C COMPLETELY REBUILT.  THE EFFORT REQUIRED THAT FGDS BE SHUT-  DOWN.  GRDA REQUESTED A VARIENCE FOR SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSION FROM OKLAHOMA AIR QUILITY SERVICE ( OAQS ) THAT WOULD PERMIT UNIT 2 TO OPERATE WHILE THE FGDS WAS SHUT-DOWN.  ON DECEMBER 1,1986,  THE OKLAHOMA AIR QUILTY SERVICE ( OAQS ) APPROVED   A CONSENT ORDER FOR GRDA WHICH PERMITTED GRDA TO OPERATE     UNIT 2 AT FULL CAPACITY WITH THE FGDS OUT OF SERVICE AND     PLACED GRDA ON A COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE.  GRDA OPERATED UNIT    2 FROM DECEMBER 2,1986 THROUGH DECEMBER 17, 1986 AND FROM    DECEMBER 27,1986 THROUGH FEBRUARY 20,1987,  WITHOUT A FULLY  OPERATIONAL FGDS.                                            AT THOSE TIMES WHEN GRDA OPERATED UNIT 2 WITHOUT A FULLY     OPERATIONAL FGDS,  IT VIOLATED 40 C.

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