# NORTHWESTERN STATES PORTLAND CEMENT CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42283`
- **Case Number:** 07-1983-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NORTHWESTERN STATES PORTLAND CEMENT COMP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE                                           A.  DEFENDANT'S FACILITY AND BUSINESS                         THE FACILITY IS ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PORTLAND  CEMENT, SIC CODE 3241.  THE FACILITY UTILIZES THE DRY PRO-   CESS.  TOTAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY IS APPROXIMATELY 2,850 TONS OF CLINKER PER DAY.  CEMENT IS SHIPPED FROM THE FACILITY     BOTH BAGGED AND IN BULK.  SHIPPING IS PREDOMINANTLY BY TRUCK  WITH THE BALANCE BY RAIL.                                        THE FACILITY UTILIZES ONE LIMESTONE QUARRY AND TWO CLAY  PITS.  THE LIMESTONE QUARRY IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY THREE  MILES NORTHWEST OF THE FACILITY.  THE PRIMARY CRUSHER IS     LOCATED AT THE QUARRY WITH THE CRUSHED LIMESTONE TRUCKED TO  THE FACILITY.  FUGITIVE DUST AT THE LIMESTONE QUARRY AND     FACILITY IS CONTROLLED BY A WATER WAGON.  THE HAUL ROAD      FROM THE LIMESTONE QUARRY IS OILED.  ONE CLAY PIT IS LOCATED  IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE CITY AND CLAY IS BROUGHT  FROM THIS PIT BY SELF-PROPELLED SCRAPER.  THE OTHER CLAY    PIT IS LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY.  CLAY IS BROUGHT FROM  THIS PIT BY TRUCK.                                                THERE IS ONE ROTARY CLAY DRYER AT THE FACILITY.  THIS   DRYER IS NATURAL GAS-FIRED (INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE) WITH NO.  2 FUEL OIL STANDBY.  EMISSIONS FROM THIS DRYER ARE CON-      TROLLED BY A MULTICLONE AND ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR.           THERE ARE NOW THREE KILNS AT THE FACILITY.  THE APPROX- IMATE CLINKER PRODUCTION CAPACITIES & 

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