# GREAT LAKES CARBON CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34986`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0006
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $327K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GREAT LAKES CARBON CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL CORPORATION OWNS AND OPERATES A COKE    CALCINIFICATION FACILITY LOCATED IN PORT ARTHUR, TX.  THE    FACILITY'S DISCHARGES ARE REGULATED BY EPA VIA NATIONAL      POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT # TX0068781.   THE FACILITY DISCHARGES TO THE WEST TURJING BASIN, THENCE TO THE SABINE-NECHES CANAL.  BEGINNING IN JULY 1984, THE        FACILITY HAS A HISTORY OF NEAR-CONTINUOUS VIOLATIONS OF THE  TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS AND TOTAL ORGANIC COMPOUND LIMITATION IN ITS PERMIT. IN RESPONSE TO RESPONSE TO SAID VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 301(A)OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C 1311(A), EPA HAS ISSUED   NUMEROUS ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDERS AND MET WITH GREAT LAKES IS CURRENTLY CONSTRCTING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FACILITYS WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM DESIGNED TO BRING THE FACILITY   INTO COMPLIANCE WITH ITS PERMIT BY MID-1990.  EPA REQUESTS   AUTHORIZATION TO COMMENCE SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH GREAT LAKES THE INTENDED RESULT OF WHICH IS GREAT LAKE' AGREEMENT  TO PAY, VIA CONSENT DECREE, A CIVIL PENALTY OF AT LEAST 327, 000 FOR THE FACILITY'S PAST VIOLATIONS OF THE CWA.

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