SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. MANUFACTURES VEHIC WHEELS IN ITS VAN NUYS, CA FACILITY. IT IS LOCATED IN A NONATTAINMENT AREA FOR OZONE WHICH HAS REC'D EXTENS FOR COMPLIANCE UNTIL 1987. SUPERIOR VIOLATED THE CA. STATE IMP- LEMENT. PLAN IN THAT THE COATINGS USED ON ITS WHEELS CONTAIN MORE VOLAT ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAN ALLOWED BY S. COAST AIR Q. MGMT DIST (SQAQMD) RULE 1107. SUPERIOR HAS BEEN LISTED AS A SIGNIFICANT VIOLATOR IN CDS. A JOINT EPA/SCAQMD INSPECTION OF THE SUPERIOR FACILITY ON 12/5/84 FOUND THE COMPANY TO BE IN VIOLATION OF RULE 1107. EPA ISSUED A NOV ON 9/19/85. SUPERIOR HAS SUBMITTED TO REGION 9 A PROPOSED COMPLIANCE PLAN THAT WOULD BRING THE FACILITY INTO COMPLIANCE WITH SCAQMD RULE 1107 BY THE END OF 1986. COMPLIANCE WILL BE ACHIEVED EITHER BY CONVERSION OF THE COMPANY'S COATING PROCESSES TO LOW VOC COATINGS OR BY INSTALLATION OF ADD-ON EMISSIONS CONTROL TECHNOLOGY. ALUMINUM WHEEL PRODUCTION COMPRISES APPROXIMATELY 70% OF THE OUTPUT OF THE FACILITY. THE ALUMINUM AND STEEL WHEELS AND SOME SPOKES ARE THE ONLY PRODUCTS TO WHICH COATINGS ARE APPLIED. LIQUID COATINGS ARE USED TO COAT MOST OF THE ALUMINUM WHEELS AND THE SPOKES. THE ALUMINUM WHEELS ARE SPRAY COATED WITH WATERBASE COAT- INGS ON AN AUTOMATIC ELECTROSTATIC SPRAY LINE, THEN MOVED BY CONVEYOR TO AN OVEN FOR CURING AT 400