# LOUISIANA-PACFIC CORPORATION (URANIA,LA)
> **Judicial** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35570`
- **Case Number:** 06-1993-0023
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $11.10M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

**LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION (LP) OWNS AND OPERATES       NUMEROUS WOOD PROCESSING AND PRODUCT MANUFACTURING FACILITIE S THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE URANIA, LA     FACILITY THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS LITIGATION REPORT.      FOLLOWING SEVERAL YEARS OF LITIGATION IN REGIONS V AND VIII,  A CITIZEN COMPLAINT FROM REGION IV, AND GROWING AWARENESS   WITHIN EPA OF A PATTERN OF VIOLATIONS AND PROBLEMS AT        SEVERAL OF LP'S PLANTS, EPA'S OFFICE OF AIR AND RADIATION    DECIDED TO SUBJECT LP TO A COMPLIANCE CHECK. THIS WAS        ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH LETTERS SENT TO LP UNDER THE AUTHORITY  OF SECTION 114 FO THE CAA.                                   **                                                           DURING THE EVALUATION OF INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM LP'S RESP ONSES TO THE SECTION 114 LETTERS, EVIDENCE OBTAINED FROM     STATE FILES, AND THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE ABOVE-REFEREN CED COMPLIANCE TESTING CONDUCTED IN FEBRUARY - APRIL 1992,   IS BECAME EVIDENT THAT THE MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARD (MDF)   PLANT THAT WAS NEARING COMPLETION AT URANIA HAD VIOLATED     THE CAA. IN PARTICULAR, THE URANIA LP MDF FACILITY WAS       CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT A PSD PERMIT REQUIRED BY PART C OF TITLE I OF THE ACT AND THE FEDERALLY-ENFORCEABLE SIP FOR           LOUISIANA.                                                   ***                                                          REGION 6 WOULD REQUEST THAT THE U.S. DOJ FILE A CIVIL        COMPLAINT AGAINST LP SEEKING CIVIL P

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