# D&B CUSTOM POWDER COATINGS & HYDROGRAPHICS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600243973`
- **Case Number:** 04-2015-4777
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- D&B CUSTOM POWDER COATINGS & HYDROGRAPHICS, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

8/19/15 - ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ON CONSENT ISSUED.

AT ALL TIME RELEVANT TO THIS ACTION, RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES A POWDER COATINGS AND HYDROGRAPHICS APPLICATIONS FACILITY IN GEORGIA.  D&B IS AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY WHICH PREPARES METAL OBJECTS FOR POWDER COATING BY EITHER SAND-BLASTING OR LIQUID ACID ETCHING. ONCE THE METAL IS PREPARED IT IS THEN SPRAYED WITH THE COATING PRODUCT AND THEN PLACED IN A HIGH-HEAT OVEN TO CURE THE POWDER COATING TO THE FINISHED PRODUCT AND COOLED.  ON APR 27, 2006, D&B BEGAN CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY. OPERATIONS STARTED AT THE FACILITY APPROX 4 MONTHS LATER, ON AUG 1, 2006. D&B DISCHARGES INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER FROM ITS FACILITY TO THE DADE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY WWTP AND ITS CONVEYANCES, WHICH COMPRISE A POTW AND MUNICIPALITY. 

ON JUNE 24, 2014, EPA CONDUCTED AN INDUSTRIAL USER COMPLIANCE INSPECTION AT THE FACILITY TO EVALUATE D&B'S COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF CWA 301 AND 307 ; THE REGS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER AT 40 CFR PARTS 403 433; AND THE STATE OF GEORGIA'S PRETREATMENT REGS AT GEORGIA RULE 391-3-6-.08.

AS A RESULT, EPA IDENTIFIED THE FOLLOWING VIOLATIONS OF PRETREATMENT STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS:

A. SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER DISCHARGE W/OUT A VALID PERMIT: THE FACILITY IS A SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER, AS DEFINED BY 40 CFR 403.3(v). THE FACILITY IS THEREFORE REQUIRED BY GEORGIA RULE 391-3-6-.08 TO OBTAIN A VALID PERMIT FROM THE STATE OF GA PRIOR TO DISCHARGING TO A POTW. THE FACILITY DISCHARGED 

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