# KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47743`
- **Case Number:** 08-1985-0007
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $14K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE                                             THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST KOCH INDUSTRIES INC.       PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(B) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 U.S.C.   7413(B), SEEKING PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH EPA    REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT        DETERIORATION (PSD) OF THE AIR QUALITY, 40 C.F.R. SECTION    52.21.                                                            CAUSE OF ACTION                                            THIS ACTION ALLEGES THAT KOCH CONSTRUCTED AND IS OPERAT-  ING A MAFOR MODIFICATION TO ITS NATURAL GAS PROCESSING PLANT IN ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO, WITHOUT FIRST APPLYING FOR AND    RECEIVING A PSD PERMIT FROM EPA.  SPECIFICALLY, KOCH         INSTALLED TWO GAS-FIRED COMPRESSOR ENGINES AT THE PLANT      HAVING THE POTENTIAL TO INCREASE EMISSIONS OF NITROGEN       OXIDES BY APPROXIMATELY 89 TONS PER YEAR.  THE DE MINIMIS    AMOUNT FOR NOX IS 40 TONS PER YEAR.                               PROPOSED REMEDY                                            EPA SEEKS CIVIL PENALTIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,000 AND    JUDICIALLY ENFORCEABLE EMISSION LIMITS ON THE TWO NEW        ENGINES WHICH WOULD LIMIT THE INCREASE IN NOX EMISSIONS TO   LESS THAN 40 TONS PER YEAR.                                     KOCH APPEARS TO BE AGREEABLE TOWARD SETTLEMENT ON THESE   TERMS.                                                            ISSUES OF NATIONAL OR PRECEDENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE            NONE.                                 

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