# AMERICAN IRON & METAL/WESTERN SCRAP PROCESSING - COE for ODS APO/CAFO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603982691`
- **Case Number:** 05-2024-5030
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- AMERICAN IRON & METAL/WESTERN SCRAP PROCESSING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

The Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) for American Iron & Metal (AIM), Colorado Springs, Colorado, resolves violations regarding the Protection of Stratospheric Ozone, found at 40 C.F.R. Part 82, Subpart F. Region 5 is entering into this CAFO as the delegated authority in all 10 EPA regions for enforcement actions under Title VI of the Clean Air Act, at 40 C.F.R. Part 82.

Specifically, AIM failed to recover refrigerants, or verify refrigerants were properly recovered, from small appliances and motor vehicle air conditioners that it accepted for recycling at its facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. AIM entered into an ACO with Region 5 on October 19, 2023 to correct the violations and return to compliance.

This CAFO requires AIM to pay a penalty of $155,000 and resolves the FOV issued to AIM on November 18, 2022.

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