# MAUI ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD.
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52138`
- **Case Number:** 09-1988-0012
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $115K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MAUI ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MAUI ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTS (MECO) APPLIED FOR AUTHORITY    TO CONSTRUCT (ATC) AND PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIO-    RATION (PSD) PERMITS FROM THE HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH    ON FEBRUARY 23, 1987.  MECO APPLIED FOR PERMITS FOR TWO      12.5 MW DIESEL ELECTRIC GENERATORS AT MECO'S MAALAEA         GENERATING STATION ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI.                      ON JULY 2, 1987 THE HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DOH)      GRANTED AN AUTHORITY TO CONSTRUCT PERMIT NO. A-712-654 TO    MECO FOR THE TWO DIESEL GENERATORS (CALLED UNITS 12 AND 13). THE ATC LIMITED THE HOURS OF OPERATION OF THE UNITS TO       260 HOURS PER YEAR WHICH LIMITED THE HOURS OF OPERATION OF   THE UNITS TO 260 HOURS PER YEAR WHICH LIMITED THE EMISSIONS  TO BELOW THE PSD SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL (THAT IS, THE LEVEL      TRIGGERING THE REQUIREMENT OF A PSD PERMIT).  EPA WAS NOT    NOTIFIED OF THE GRANTING OF THE ATC.                           SINCE UNITS 12 AND 13 ARE BASE LOAD UNITS THAT WILL BE     USED ALL THE TIME (NOT 260 HOURS PER YEAR), MECO STILL       PURSUED THE PSD APPLICATION.  UNKNOWN TO EPA, MECO BEGAN     CONSTRUCTION OF UNITS 12 AND 13, COMPLETING CONSTRUCTION     OF UNIT 12 ABOUT APRIL 5, 1988.                                WHEN EPA REGION 9 BECAME AWARE THAT MECO HAD CONSTRUCTED   UNIT 12 AND WAS READY TO START OPERATION WITHOUT RECEIVING   A PSD PERMIT, EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION (NOV) TO      MECO, DATED APRIL 12, 1988, FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A MAJOR      MODIFICATION WITHOUT A PSD PERMIT.  LA

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