# LOCKHEED CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52179`
- **Case Number:** 09-1989-0027
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $300K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LOCKHEED CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT SERVICE COMPANY ( LOCKHEED ONTARIO )     CONSISTENTLY VIOLATED FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT       STANDARDS (40 C.F.R. PART 433) FOR TOTOL TOXIC ORGANICS,     AND OCCASIONALLY FOR CHROMIUM AND CADMIUM, UNTIL START-UP    OF AN ORGANIC DESTRUCTION UNITL ON JULY 1, 1988.  (LOCKHEED  ONTARIO ALSO VIOLATED LOCAL PRETREATMENT LIMITS, BUT THOSE   VIOLATIONS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED COMPLAINT        BECAUSE THE LIMITS IN EFFECT DURING THE PERIOD OF VIOLATION  WERE NOT ENFORCEABLE.  THE CITY OF ONTARIO HAS SINCE         ADOPTED ENFORCEABLE LIMITS).  THE DATA CURRENTLY AVAILABLE   INDICATES THAT VIOLATIONS, PRIMARILY OF THE TOTAL TOXIC      ORGANICS STANDARD, WERE ONGOING BETWEEN MARCH, 1986, AND     JULY 1, 1988.  EPA WILL SEEK ADDITIONAL DATA TO SHOW EARLIER VIOLATIONS, SINCE LOCKHEED HAS REPRESENTED TO EPA THAT       COMPLIANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE STANDARD WAS NEVER ACHIEVED   UNTIL COMPLETION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT ON JULY 1,   1988.                                                          LOCKHEED ALSO VIOLATED AN EPA SECTION 309(A)               ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ISSUED SEPTEMBER 9, 1988,    BY FAILING TO MONITOR ONE POLLUTANT (OUT OF TEN) FOR SIX     MONTHS, AS REQUIRED BY THE ORDER.  THIS IS NOT A CONTINUING  VIOLATION, BECAUSE REQUIREMENT DID NOT EXTEND BEYOND         FEBRUARY 28, 1989.                                             THE REGION SEEKS A CIVIL PENALTY OF $300,000.  THE         STATUTORY MAXIMUM IS $300,000, AND THE

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