# STRUCTURAL METALS INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35003`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0024
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $325K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- STRUCTURAL METALS INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/30/90:  SYNOPSIS OF CASE:  STRUCTURAL METALS IS A STEEL MANUFACTURING PROCESS, SMI GENERATES LARGE AMOUNTS OF        PARTICULATE EMISSIONS FROM ITS ELECTRIC ARE FURNACES, WHICH  ARE COLLECTED IN A DRY SCRUBBING SYSTEM.  THE RESULTING      ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE BAGHOUSE DUST (EPA HAZARDOUS WASTE      NUMBER KO61--HEREINAFTER, K061 ), IS THE HAZARDOUS WASTE     OF CONCERN IN THIS CASE.  ON AUGUST 17, 1988, EPA PROMULGATE LAND DISPOSAL PROHIBITIONS AND TREATMENT STANDARDS FOR SO-   CALLED  FIRST THIRD  WASTES, INCLUDING SUBCATEGORIES THE LOW ZINC SUBCATEGORY (GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 15% TOTAL ZINC    AND THE HIGH ZINC SUBCATEGORY.  SMI GENERATES HAIGH ZINC SUB -CATEGORY KO61 WASTE.  SMI LAND DISPOSED OF SOME OF ITS HIGH ZINC SUBCATEGORY KO61 WASTE WITHOUT TREATING IT AS REQUIRED  BY THE LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS.

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