# HYDRO-PLATERS - APO/CAFO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601708193`
- **Case Number:** 05-2019-5003
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- HYDRO-PLATERS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Hydro-Platers owns and operates a metal-plating facility where it conducts hard-chromium electroplating, sulfamate-nickel electroplating, and nickel electroless plating.  The facility consists of six open-surface hard chromium-electroplating tanks subject to Subpart N.  Emissions from Tanks 1, 2, and 3 vent to a common packed-bed scrubber (System 1), and Tanks 4, 5, and 6 vent to their own similar system (System 2).  

Specifically, Hydro-Platers failed to:
(1) demonstrate initial compliance by not conducting the initial performance test on or before March 19, 2015, required by Subpart N; 
(2) maintain the emission limit of 0.011 milligrams of total chromium per dry standard cubic meter (mg/dscm) of ventilation air for all open surface hard chromium electroplating tanks of System 1; 
(3) properly monitor and record the pressure drop across all stages of Systems 1 and 2; 
(4) maintain certain records and prepare all reports required under Subpart N; 
(5) include its dry mechanical polishing machines in the reports it submitted to EPA required under Subpart WWWWWW; and
(6) prepare annual compliance certifications for Subpart WWWWWW.  

In order to achieve compliance, Hydro-Platers: 
(1) upgraded its monitors to allow for automatic recording of the pressure drop across the packed-bed systems; 
(2) conducted performance tests of its systems between January 26, 2016 and May 19, 2016 to establish the pressure drop across each system; 
(3) trained its employees on how t

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