Forest City violated the 8 pounds per hour SIP rule from several of their metal parts coating emission units located at their Rockford, IL facility. We performed an unannounced inspection at the facility after visiting another Forest City facility that has very similar operations and is required to operate a catalytic oxidizer to maintain compliance. We discovered these violations from sending a Section 114 Information Request to the facility requesting operating records and solvent usage.
Forest City is entering into an Administrative Consent Order, which requires Forest City to install a recuperative thermal oxidizer to control emissions from the facilities.