# MARINE SHALE PROCESSORS INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35207`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARINE SHALE PROCESSORS INC. (complaint)
## Summary

SINCE 1985, MARINE SHALE PROCESSORS, INC. (MSP), LOCATED   IN AMELIA, LOUISIANA, HAS OPERATED A ROTARY KILN COMBUSTION  PROCESS WHICH INCINERATES VARIOUS MATERIALS, INCLUDING       MATERIALS WHICH ARE CLASSIFIED AS HAZARDOUS WASTES.  THE     AMBIENT AIR EMISSIONS FROM THIS PROCESS ARE REGULATED BY AIR QUALITY PERMIT NO. 1036 M-1, ISSUED BY THE LOUISIANA DEPART- MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (LDEQ) PURSUANT TO THE STATE   IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (SIP), LOUISIANA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE     (LAC) 33:III.505.A.1.  ON JANUARY 3, 1986, MODIFICATIONS TO  MSP'S AIR QUALITY PERMIT WERE GRANTED BY LDEQ, SETTING FORTH THE CURRENT NITROGEN OXIDES (NOX), CARBON MONOXIDE (CO), AND HYDROCARBON (HC) EMISSIONS LIMITATIONS FOR THE ROTARY KILN   COMBUSTION PROCESS.                                            FROM EARLY 1986 THROUGH OCTOBER 1986, MSP WAS UNDER        INVESTIGATION BY LDEQ FOR AIR, WATER, AND HAZARDOUS WASTE    VIOLATIONS.  IN OCTOBER 1986, LDEQ REFERRED THE MSP MATTER   TO EPA REGION 6 FOR A DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER THE        FACILITY WAS A LEGITIMATE REUSE/RECYCLE FACILITY AND FOR     CONSIDERATION OF APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT ACTION.               IN NOVEMBER 1986, EPA CONDUCTED A CRIMINAL AND CIVIL       INVESTIGATION OF MSP WHICH RESULTED IN A CRIMINAL ENFORCE-   MENT ACTION AND A PLEA AGREEMENT IN WHICH MSP AGREED TO      PLEAD GUILTY TO A RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT     (RCRA) VIOLATION, TWO RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT VIOLATIONS, AND PAYMENT OF A $1,000,000 CRIMINAL PENAL

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