# GULF CHEMICAL AND METALLURGICAL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35192`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $750K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GULF CHEMICAL AND METALLURGICAL CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

12/31/90:  SYNOPSIS OF CASE:  GULF CHEMICAL AND METALLUR-  GICAL CORPORATION (GCMC) IS A CATALYST RELAMATION FACILITY   IN FREEPORT, TX THAT RECLAIMS METALS FROM SPENT OIL REFINERY  CATALYSTS.  GCMC WAS ISSUED A NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE  ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT BY EPA SURSUANT TO SECT 40 OF THE CWA ( THE ACT ), 33 U.S.C. 1342 ON SEPT 30, 1987.  ON FEBRUARY 18, 1988, EPA ENTERED A CONSENT ORDER WITH GCMC     RESOLVING A CIVIL ACTION  IN THE US DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DIST OF TEXAS, FOR NPDES PERMIT EFFLUENT VIOLATION OF AMMONI NITROGEN AT OUTFALL 001 WITH A COMPLIANCE DATE TO MEET       FINAL AMMONIA LIMITS AT BOTH OUTFALLS (001 AND 002), SIMULT- ANEOUSLY.

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