# LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36830`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0547
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- LOS ALAMOS LABORATORY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 113 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT ( CAA ), AS AMENDED, 42     SECTIONS 7413 AND 7418.                                   2. LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY                               DEPT. OF ENERGY                                              LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO                                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 112 OF THE CAA BY     USING A SHIELDING FACTOR WHICH REDUCES ITS CAP-88 EMIS-      SION LEVEL BY 30% WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL FROM EPA, AND       EXCEEDED THE EMISSIONS LIMITS FOR RADIONUCLIDES IN 1990.  4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 113 OF THE CAA, EPA IS-    SUED A NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE AND NECESSITY FOR A CON-      FERENCE NOTIFICATION TO THE RESPONDENT. THE NOTIFICATION     REQUIRES THE RESPONDENT TO CONTACT AND MET TWITH EPA TO      DISCUSS THE VIOLATIONS WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE NOTIFICATION    AND WITHIN 45 DAYS OF THE NOTIFICATION, SUBMIT A REMEDIAL    PLAN TO EPA FOR REVIEW, COMMENT AND APPROVAL.

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