# SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES INC and SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600813777`
- **Case Number:** 01-2016-2033
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES INC (complaint) (settlement)
- SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On September 26, 2016, Region 1 filed a consent agreement and final order resolving Clean Water Act violations against Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc. and Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. (Respondents) for failing to comply with the terms and conditions of the facility?s NPDES permit, discharging stormwater and groundwater without a permit, and failing to comply with SPCC regulations.  Respondents own and operate an abrasives, ceramics, and refractories manufacturing facility in Worcester, Massachusetts.  The CAFO requires Respondents to pay a civil penalty of $131,000 and to perform a Supplemental Environmental Project worth approximately $100,000 in total requiring the purchase and installation of water quality treatment devices.  Region 1 also issued to Respondents an administrative compliance order on consent, which provides a schedule for returning to compliance with the CWA at Saint-Gobain?s Worcester facility.

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