# NEVADA POWER COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52122`
- **Case Number:** 09-1987-0026
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $400K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NEVEDA POWER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NPC HAS BEEN OPERATING ITS REID-GARDNER GENERATING         STATION IN VIOLATION OF THE NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ( NSPS ) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT ( CAA ).  THE REID-GARDNER     FACILITY IS A LARGE COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING     STATION LOCATED NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, NV, CONSISTING OF 4      UNITS AND PRODUCING 580 MW ELECTRICAL OUTPUT.  THE NSPS      VIOLATIONS ARE NUMEROUS AND OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES SPREAD    OVER AN ALMOST TWO-YEAR PERIOD.                                NPC OPERATED REID-GARDNER UNIT 3 ( RG-3 ) FOR ELEVEN DAYS  IN 1985 WITHOUT POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT, RESULTING IN    EXCESS PARTICULATE MATTER ( PM ) AND SULFUR DIOXIDE ( S02 )  EMISSIONS AND OPACITY.  THIS ALSO REPRESENTS A VIOLATION OF  AN NSPS REGULATION REQUIRING  GOOD AIR POLLUTION CONTROL     PRACTICES.   ADDITIONALLY, NPC VIOLATED A NUMBER OF REQUIRE- MENTS FOR THE RG-3 CONTINUOUS EMISSIONS MONITORING SYSTEMS   ( CEMS ).                                                      NPC'S REID-GARDNER UNIT 4 ( RG-4 ) FAILED SOURCE TESTS IN  1984 AND 1986, INDICATING PM EMISSIONS VIOLATIONS. NPC HAS   ALSO VIOLATED THE CEMS REGULATION FOR RG-4 IN AT LEAST       SEVERAL HUNDRED INCIDENTS.

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