# AVON TAPE INC
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `410`
- **Case Number:** 01-1995-0107
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $180K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $5K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AVON TAPE INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PROPOSED CIVIL ACTION UNDER SECTION 113 OF THE  CLEAN AIR ACT FOR VIOLATIONS OF 1) VOC EMISSION RESTRICTIONS AT 310 CMR SECTION 7.18(14) AND (15), WHICH ARE PART OF      MASSACHUSETTS' FEDERALLY ENFORCEABLE STATE IMPLEMENTATION    PLAN (SIP). 2) NONATTAINMENT NEW SOURCE REVIEW AND PLAN      APPROVAL (PERMITTING) REQUIREMENTS IN THE SIP AT 310 CMR     SECTION 7.00 AND 7.02.                                       AVON TAPE INC. OWNS AND OPERATES SIX PAPER AND FABRIC        SURFACE COATING LINES AT ITS FACILITY IN AVON, MA. FROM 1990 THROUGH 1993, THESE COATING LINES EMITTED VOLATILE ORGANIC   COMPOUNDS (VOC) AT A RATE ABOVE THE ALLOWABLE VOC EMISSON    LIMITS FOR PAPER AND FABRIC COATING LINES AT 310 CMR SECTION 7.18(14) AND (15). IN 1982 AND 1986, AVON TAPE CONSTRUCTED   AND OPERATED NEW COATING LINES WITHOUT APPLYING FOR AND      RECEIVING PLAN APPROVALS FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT   OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (DEP), AS REQUIRED BY 310 CMR    SECTION 7.02 AND WITHOUT UNDERGOING NONATTAINMENT NEW SOURCE REVIEW UNDER 310 CMR 7.00, APPENDIX A.                       PROPOSED RELIEF:  THE COMPLAINT ASKS FOR CIVIL PENALTIES OF  UP TO $25,000 PER DAY OF VIOLATION COMMENCING FIVE YEARS     PRIOR TO THE DATE OF FILING. (THE APPLICABLE STATUTE OF      LIMITATIONS LIMITS THE ASSESSMENT OF PENALTIES IN THIS       ACTION TO VIOLATIONS WITHING THE PAST FIVE YEARS.) THE       REGION HAS CALCULATED A PROPOSED MINIMUM PENALTY OF APPROXI- MATELY $581,000.                       

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