# VISION METAL F.K.A QUANEX CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37694`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0869
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $525K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $1.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- VISION METAL F.K.A. QUANEX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(B).                                          2. VISION METAL F.K.A. QUANEX CORP. - GULF STATES TUBE DIV.     P.O. BOX 952                                                 ROSENBERG, FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS 77471                  3. QUANEX IS A MAJOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITY WHICH MANUFACTURES     STEEL TUBES BY THE PROCESS OF HOT EXTRUSION, COLD DRAWING    AND WELDING. THE FACILITY DISCHARGES INTO COUNTY DRAINAGE    DITCHES WHICH CONNECT TO AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY, COON          CREEK, BIG CREEK, AND THEN TO THE BRAZOS RIVER.              THE RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 301(A) AND       402(A) OF THE CWA BY EXCEEDING THE EFFLUENT LIMITS OF ITS    PERMIT ON NUNEROUS OCASSIONS.                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(B) OF THE CWA, EPA     REFERS THIS DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING THE FILING     OF A CIVIL JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST QUANEX.       EPA IS SEEKING BOTH CIVIL PENALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF    TO BRING THE FACILITY BACK INTO COMPLIANCE WITH ITS NPDES    PERMIT AND DETER THE FACILITY FROM FURTHER VIOLATIONS.       THE FACILITY MUST DETERMINE THE SPECIFIC CAUSE OF THE        ZINC VIOLATIONS AND TAKE NECESSARY STEPS TO ELIMINATE        THEM. IN ADDITION, QUANEX MUST PROPERLY OPERATE AND MAIN-    TAIN ITS TREATMENT FACILITIES TO ENSURE REGULAR COMPLI-      ANCE WITH ALL PERMIT LIMITS. FURTHER, A CIVIL PENALTY        WILL BE SOUGHT WHICH WILL TAKE IN

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