# CERTAINTEED CORPORATION, KANSAS CITY, KS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42369`
- **Case Number:** 07-1985-0058
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $46K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CERTAINTEED CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DEFENDANT PRODUCES SEVERAL LINES OF INSULATION PRO-     DUCTS. THE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS/WYANDOTTE COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. (KCK-WCH) FOUND OPACITY VIOLATIONS AT A TIME WHEN ONE OF     THOSE LINES (THE K-10 LINE, PRODUCING METAL BUILDING INSUL-  ATION, OR  MBI  --FIBERGLASS--) WAS OPERATING. THE LINE HAD  AN ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR (ESP) ON IT, WHICH WAS AP-     PARENTLY NOT CAPABLE OF HANDLING THE EMISSIONS.  THE KANSAS  REGULATION, SECTION 2A-19, REQUIRED THAT OPACITY BE LESS     THAN 20%, WHEREAS THE AVERAGE OF THE OPACITY READINGS WAS    34%.  THE SOURCE IS IN A NON-ATTAINMENT AREA FOR HYDRO-      CARBONS.                                                          THE OPACITY READINGS DONE BY KCK-WCH WHICH UNCOVERED    VIOLATION OCCURED ON 7/19/84, AND KCK-WCH ISSUED AN NOV ON   7/20/85.  THE STATE OF KANSAS (KANSAS DEPT. OF HEALTH AND    ENVIRONMENT--KDHE) ISSUED AN NOV, BASED ON THE SAME READINGS , ON 7/27/84. ON 8/15/84, KCK-WCH AND KDHE MET WITH DEF-     FENDANT TO DISCUSS THE VIOLATION.  ON 11/29/84 EPA/REG-VII   ISSUED A SECTION 114 LETTER, ASKING FOR PRODUCTION FIGURES,  DEFENDANT'S RESPONSE WAS RECEIVED ON 12/13/84. ON 1/15/85,   KDHE ISSUED A CORRECTIVE ORDER REQUIRING INSTALLATION OF A   NEW ESP, WITH A FINAL COMPLIANCE DATE OF 2/1/86; THE ORDER   DID NOT ASSESS ANY PENALTIES.  REGION-VII ISSUED ITS NON ON  3/4/85.                                                           IN RESPONSE TO THE NON, DEFENDANT SUBMITTED A TIMELY    PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION ON 4/25/85. 

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