# GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION - FAIRFAX
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42748`
- **Case Number:** 07-1986-0155
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $130K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

VIOLATION OF A CONSENT DECREE ENTERED ON 08/27/84, IN THE    U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR KANSAS.                              THE RELEVANT TERMS OF THE CD WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO REFERRAL   ARE SECTIONS ARE SECTIONS III AND VI.  SECTION III CONTAINS  A COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETION OF A PRETREATMENT       SYSTEM.  THE COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE REQUIRES THAT:                    BY SEPTEMBER 28, 1985, DEFENDANT SHALL ACHIEVE             AND DEMONSTRATE, AND THEREAFTER MAINTAIN, FINAL COM-         PLIANCE AT THE PLANT....                                     ITEM 6 OF THE DETAILED COMPLIANCE SCHEDULE IS:               6.  COMPLETE INSTALLATION OF TANKS AND PIPING, TIE-IN    IN-PLANT COLLECTIONS SYSTEM; COMPLETE ON-LINE MANUAL OPERA-  TION AND ACHIEVE AND DEMONSTRATE COMPLAINCE BY 09/28/85,...  USING THE FINAL TREATMENT SYSTEM WHICH DEFENDANT WILL OPER-  ATE FOR THE DURATION OF THE DECREE (EMPHASIS ADDED).              PURSUANT TO THE DECREE, GMC DEMONSTRATED COMPLIANCE AS  SPECIFIED BY TERMS OF THE DECREE; TO-WIT:  COLLECTED SIX     COMPOSITE SAMPLES WITHIN THE 2 WEEK PEROID PRIOR TO 09/29/85 THE RESULTS OF THESE SAMPLINGS WERE RECEIVED BY EPA 09/16/85 AND 10/07/85.                                                     BY LETTER DATED 06/04/86, GMC'S FAIRFAX PLANT MGR, A.M. BEIRNE, NOTIFIED REGION VII THAT ON 05/01/86, GMC DISCOVERED ELEVATED LEVELS OF ZINC, CHROMIUM AND LEAD IN ONE SAMPLE OF  THE FINAL WASTEWATER EFFLUENT FROM THE FAIRFAX PLANT TO AN    ERRANT DISCHARGE  FROM THE PLANT'S 

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