# UNION TANK CAR COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34365`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0122
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $350K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION TANK CAR COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            VIOLATIONS:                                                  UNION TANK DISCHARGES POLLUTANTS INTO WATERS OF THE US W/O   AN NPDES PERMIT, A VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA,      33 USC 1311.  DESPITE REPEATED NOTIFICATION, THE CO HAS      FAILED TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT.                                *                                                            RECENT CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT:                               AFTER BEING FORCED TO OBTAIN A WARRANT, REGION VI STAFF      INSPECTED THE FACILITY ON JAN 27 AND 28, 1988                *                                                            NATIONAL ISSUES:                                             DEFENDANT HAS FLOUTED THE NPDES PROGRAM BY REFUSING TO APPLY FOR A PERMIT.  SINCE WIDESPREAD VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE IS      ESSENTIAL DUE TO RESOURCE CONTRAINTS, THIS ACTION IS IMPOR-  TANT TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF THE PROGRAM.                 *                                                            RECEIPT OF EVIDENCE OF VIOLATIONS:                           FEDERAL INSPECTORS DOCUMENTED FOUR SEPARATE DISCHARGES.      STATE INSPECTORS, DMR'S AND NCR'S ALSO DOCUMENT DISCHARGES.  *                                                            SYNOPSIS:                                                    UNION TANK CAR CO, INC., LITHCOTE CO DIVISION, OPERATES A    RAILROAD CAR REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE 

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