# GNB INDUSTRIAL BATTERY CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35386`
- **Case Number:** 06-1992-0039
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $63K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $25K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GNB INDUSTRIAL BATTERY CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

01/02/92 SYNOPSIS:                                           GNB INDUSTRIAL BATTERY CO., INC. (GNB) OWNS AND OPERATES   A LEAD-ACID BATTERY MANUFACTURING PLANT IN FORT SMITH, ARK.  THIS FACILITY IS A BRANCH OF GNB INDUSTRIAL BATTERY CO.,     INC. IN LOMBARD, ILL. WHICH IS A SUBSIDIARY OF GNB, INC.     OF ST. PAUL, MN.                                               GNB HAS INSTALLED NEW EQUIPMENET SINCE JANUARY 14, 1980    WHICH IS THE APPLICABILITY DATE FOR THE STANDARDS OF         PERFORMANCE FOR LEAD-ACID BATTERY MANUFACTURING PLANTS,      40 C.F.R. 60, SUBPART KK.  THE FACILITY IS SUBJECT TO NSPS   SUBPARTS A AND KK.                                             THE NSPS REGULATIONS REQUIRED GNB TO NOTIFY EPA OF A       PHYSICAL OR OPERATIONAL CHANGE TO AN EXISTING FACILITY WHICH MAY INCREASE THE EMISSION RATE OF ANY AIR POLLUTANT TO       WHICH A STANDARD APPLIES.  SUCH NOTIFICATION WAS REQUIRED TO BE POSTMARKED 60 DAYS OR AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE BEFORE THE   CHANGE IS COMMENCED.  THE NSPS REGULATIONS ALSO REQUIRED     GNB TO CONDUCT PERFORMANCE TESTS ON AFFECTED FACILITIES      CONSTRUCTED AFTER JANUARY 14, 1980.  GNB FAILED TO TIMELY    CONDECT SUCH PERFORMANCE TESTS, AND FAILED TO INSTALL        MONITORING EQUIPMENET REQUIRED TO BE IN PLACE PRIOR TO       CONDUCTING SUCH TESTS.  GNB FURTHER FAILED TO TIMELY         NOTIFY EPA PRIOR TO VISIBLE EMISSION READINGS AND PRIOR      TO PERFORMANCE TESTS.  WHEN PERFORMANCE TESTS WERE FINALLY   CONDUCTED, LAB ANALYSIS WAS NOT CORREC

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