# SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES INTER
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52074`
- **Case Number:** 09-1986-0003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $32K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

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 

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