# AMSTED GRAPHITE MATERIALS, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2022 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603034494`
- **Case Number:** 03-2022-0020
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- AMSTED GRAPHITE MATERIALS, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On March 8, 2022, Region 3 filed a signed Consent Agreement and Final Order ( CAFO ) resolving alleged violations by Amsted Graphite Materials, LLC ( AGM ), of the CWA and its combined wastewater and stormwater NPDES permit.  AGM is based in Anmoore, West Virginia, and produces carbon and graphite materials with multiple applications in industry.  AGM experienced numerous effluent exceedances and stormwater benchmarks exceedances, and poor housekeeping at its facility.  AGM entered into a separate Administrative Order on Consent on December 7, 2021 to bring the facility back into compliance.  As part of this CAFO, AGM has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $216,000, in installments over a six-month period, including interest, for a total of $216,436.  The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection was informed of this enforcement matter. AGM?s facility is not located in an EJ Community of concern.

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