# YAFFE IRON AND METAL COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36203`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0334
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $150K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- YAFFE IRON AND METAL COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.        SEC. 1311(A).                                             2. YAFFE IRON AND METAL COMPANY, INC.                           END OF SOUTH  G  STREET                                      MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA                                        3. THE RESPONDENT HAS VIOLATED SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER (THE SEPARATED CONTAM-     INATED WASTEWATER FROM THE TANK FARM AND TRANSFORMER         BUILDING OIL WATER SEPARATORS, AND NON-CONTACT COOLING       WATER FROM THE TRANSFORMER BUILDING AREA), PROCESS QUENCH    WASTEWATER (THE ALUMINUM FURNACE SMELTING AREA), AND CON-    TAMINATED STORMWATER RUN-OFF WITHOUT A NATIONAL POLLUTANT    DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT FOR SUCH DIS-    CHARGES, TO AN UNNAMED DITCH; THENCE TO A HOLDING POND,      ON UNION PACIFIC'S PROPERTY; AND THENCE TO COODY CREEK.   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE CWA, EPA IS     REQUESTING THAT DOJ PURSUE A PENALTY OF $324,430.00 AND A    REQUEST THAT THE RESPONDENT CEASE ALL DISCHARGES OF IN-      DUSTRIAL AND PROCESS WASTEWATERS .                        5. THIS CASE WAS REFERRED TO DOJ ON JUN. 25, 1993.           6. YAFFE IRON AND METAL COMPANY, INC., A METAL RECYCLING OP-    ERATION LOCATED IN MUSKOGEE, OK., RECYCLES ELECTRIC          TRANSFORMERS AND OTHER TYPES OF METALS. THIS FACILITY HAS    BEEN IN OPERATION SINCE 1964. THE PROPERTY, PRIOR TO         1963, WAS A RAILROAD YARD OWNED A

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