# ALTIVIA PETROCHEMICALS
> **Judicial** · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601190029`
- **Case Number:** 05-2017-5054
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ALTIVIA PETROCHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA conducted an inspection of the facility in May 2017 and issued a Finding of Violation in September 2017. After almost four years of responding to Defendant?s requests to meeting with EPA political leadership and ultimately unsuccessful negotiations, the United States filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on October 5, 2021. In the complaint, the U.S. alleged violations of: 1) the HON; 2) EPA?s Reference Method 21 monitoring requirements; and 3) Altivia?s Title V permit. In the Complaint, the United States alleges that Altivia:

1.	failed to install and operate controls on a process vent in violation of 40 C.F.R.     ? 63.113(a);
2.	failed to properly perform Method 21 monitoring at valves in violation of 40 C.F.R. ?? 63.168(b) and 63.180(b);
3.	failed to monitor valves in light liquid service or gas/vapor service in violation of 40 C.F.R. ? 63.168;
4.	failed to monitor connectors in light liquid service or gas/vapor service in violation of 40 C.F.R. ? 63.174;
5.	failed to control emissions from individual drain systems in violation of 40 C.F.R. ? 63.136(a);
6.	failed to control emissions from liquid streams in open systems in violation of 40 C.F.R. ? 63.136(a);
7.	failed to control wastewater streams at the facility?s open biological wastewater treatment unit, in violation of 40 C.F.R. ? 63.138(b)-(f); and
8.	violated provisions of the facility?s Title V permit which corresponded to the above provisions.

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