# CHAPARRA STEEL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35005`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0026
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $221K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHAPARRAL STEEL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYSNOPSIS OF THE CASE:  CHAPARRAL STEEL COMPANY (CHAPARRAL IS A STEEL MANUFACTURER LOCATED NEAR MIDLOTHIAN, TEXAS.  AS  A RESULT OF ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS, CHAPARRAL 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 HAZ  WASTE NUMBER KO61--GEREUBAFTERM  K061WASTE ), IS THE HAZARD  OUS WASTE OF CONCERN IN THIS CASE.  ON AUGUST 17, 1988, THE  UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) PROMUL-  GATED LAND DISPOSAL PROHIBITIONS AND TREATMENT STANDARDS FOR SO-CALLED  FIRST THIRDD  WASTES, INCLUDING K061 WASTE. K061  WASTE WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO SUBCATEGORIES- THE LOW ZINC       SUBCATEGORY(LESS THAN 15%TOTAL ZINC).   CHAPARRAL GENERATES   HIGH ZINC SUBCATEGORY K061 WASTE.

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