# AMERICAN LANTERN COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34386`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0144
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $300K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN LANTERN COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DATA SHEET:                                                  *                                                            VIOLATIONS:                                                  VIOLATIONS OF AMERICAN LANTERN'S INDUSTRIAL USER PERMIT,     FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH PERMIT, FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT ADEQUATE PRETREATEMENT TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH REGULATIONS     AND WITH ITS IU PERMIT.                                      *                                                            PROPOSED RELIEF:                                             SETTLEMENT IN THE FORM OF A CONSENT DECREE AND MINIMUM CIVIL PENALTIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $277,000.                         *                                                            RECENT CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT:                               A LETTER, DATED SEPTEMBER 23, 1987, WAS SENT BY THE CITY     OF SAN ANTONIO TO AMERICAN LANTERN, CONCERNING THE CO'S      RESPONSES WHICH GENERALLY ONLY 'SUGGESTED SHORT-TERM TEM-    PORARY SOLUTIONS' TO PAST EFFLUENT VIOLATIONS.  THE CITY     INFORMED AMERICAN LANTERN THAT 'WITHOUT THE INSTALLATION     OF A PRETREATEMENT FACILITY CONSISTENT COMPLIANCE WITH       EFFLUENT STANDARDS IS IMPOSSIBLE.'  AMERICAN LANTERN WAS     REQUIRED, BY THE CITY, TO SUBMIT A FORMAL COMPLIANCE         SCHEDULE.                                                    *                                                            NATIONAL ISSUES:                                             THE PURPOSE OF THE CWA IS FRUSTRATED

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