# EL PASO PLATING WORKS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34997`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EL PASO PLATING WORKS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/27/90:  SYNOPSIS OF CASE:  RESPONDENT EL PASO PLATING   WORKS, INC.  ( EP EPLATING ) OWNS AND OPERATES AN ELECTRO-   PLATING DISCHARGES PROCESS WASTEWATER TO THE HASKELL STREET  PLANT, A SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY OWNED & OPERATED BY THE   CITY OF EL PASO, TX. THE HASKELL STREET PLANT DISCHARGESS    TREATED WASTEWATER TO RIO GRANDE.  EP PLATING'S DISCHARGES   ARE GOVERNED THE U.S. ENVIORNMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY( EPA)  PRETREATMENT STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO FACILITIES WITHIN THE   ELECTROPLATING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY, COMMON METALS SUBCATEG -ORY, 40 CFR PART 413, SUBPART A.  EPA ALLEGES THAT EP PLAT- ING  HAS VIOL SECT. 301(A) & 307(D) OF TH CWA BY DISCHARGING PROCESS WASTEWATER CONTAINING CYANIDE, COPPER, NICKEL, CHROM -IUM, ZINC & LEAD IN QUANTIES IN EXCESS F THE PRETREATMENT   STANDARDS FOR SUCH POLLUTANTS.  THE REG. SUGGETS THAT        EP PLATING'S PRETREATMENT STANDARD VIOLATIONS MERIT THE      ASSESSMENT OF A CIVIL PENALTY OF AT LEAST $218,000.  AS      SETTLEMENT IS LIKELY, THE  REGION REQUESTS AUTHORIZATION     TO COMMENCE PRE-FILING NEGOTIATIONS.                         ANY CONSENT DECREE SHOULD REQUIRE THE PAYMENT BY EP PLATING  OF A CIVIL PENALTY, ESTABLISH A SCHEDULE FOR ATTAINING       COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT & ITS IMPLEMENTING  REGULATIONS &    INCLUDE STIPULATED PENALTIES TO ADDRESS ANY NONCOMPLIANCE    WITH THE TERMS OF THE CONSENT DECREE.

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