# ALLIANCE CASTING - ACO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601522471`
- **Case Number:** 05-2018-5022
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ALLIANCE CASTING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Alliance Castings owns and operates a steel foundry in Alliance, Ohio. The foundry is subject to the NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries as well as a Permit-to-Install and a Title V Permit. In a March 24, 2015 Notice and Finding of Violation, EPA alleged that Alliance Castings had violated several applicable requirements from each of these, including:
1.	NESHAP for Iron and Steel Foundries
a.	Failure to install a properly sized baghouse to control EAF emissions during tapping and charging (the canopy baghouse);
b.	Failure to conduct opacity observations of foundry operations concurrently with the particulate matter performance test;
c.	Poor operation and maintenance of the baghouse;
d.	Failure to have a complete Operation and Maintenance Plan;
e.	Late installation of a bag leak detection system on the canopy baghouse; and
f.	Failure of the bag leak detection system to detect broken bags.
2.	Title V Permit
a.	Significant deviations from the baghouse pressure drop limits.
3.	Permit-to-Install 15-01570
a.	Failed PM10 performance test for EUs (emission unit) P040, P041, P042, P043, and P044;
b.	Failure to achieve 99.9% control of PM emissions for EUs P040, P041, P042, P043, and P044;
c.	Failed VOC performance test for EUs P047, P048 and P049;
d.	Failure to achieve 99.9% control of VOC emissions for EUs P047, P048 and P049; and
e.	Significant deviations from the baghouse pressure drop limits.
4.	Permit-to-Install P0116125, issued September 4, 2014
a.	Incomplete pe

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