# INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52099`
- **Case Number:** 09-1987-0001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $140K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS CASE CONCERNS VIOLATIONS OF THE CAA BY INSPIRATION    CONSOLIDATED COMPANY AT ITS COPPER SMELTER LOCATED ABOUT     50 MILES EAST OF PHOENIX AT MIAMI, ARIZONA.  SPECIFICALLY,   ARIZONA REGULATION R-9-3-515C8, ENFORCEABLE BY EPA AS PART   OF THE APPROVED SIP, REQUIRES ICCCO TO PERFORM AN EVALUATION OF ITS FUGITIVE EMISSIONS FROM THE SMELTER, WHICH ICCCO HAS  FAILED TO DO.                                                  THE MIAMI, ARIZONA AREA HAS RECORDED NUMEROUS SO2 NAAQS    VIOLATIONS SINCE 1984 MANY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY   FUGITIVE EMISSIONS.                                            ICCCO DENIES THAT IT IS IN VIOLATION BECAUSE IT CLAIMS THE SMELTER QUALIFIES FOR AN EXEMPTION TO THE REGULATION.  THIS  CLAIM IS NOT TRUE.  REGION 9 FEELS THAT IT WILL TAKE A COURT ORDER TO FORCE ICCCO TO COMPLY WITH THE CAA.  REGION 9 SEEKS INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO FORCE ICCCO TO PERFORM THE FUGITIVE     EMISSION EVALUATION.                                           THE APPROPRIATE CIVIL PENALTY PURSUANT TO THE CAA CIVIL    PENALTY POLICY RANGES FROM $182,000 TO $237,000 DEPENDING ON THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE.

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