# LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52264`
- **Case Number:** 09-1991-0037
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $11.10M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LOUISIANA PACIFIC CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE DEFEDANT FAILED TO OBTAIN A FEDERAL PSD PERMIT PRIOR   TO CONSTRUCTING A WOOD-FIRED BOILER AT ITS OROVILLE, CALIF.  FACILITY.  INSTEAD, IT OBTAINED A MINOR SOURCE CONSTRUCTION  PERMIT.  THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED ITS RESTRICTIONS IN THE      PERMIT FOR CO, PM, AND NOX.  IN ADDITION, THE NEW BOILER     RESULTED IN A SIGNIFICANT NET EMISSIONS INCREASE IN NOX.     BECAUSE THE FACILITY WAS AN EXISTING MAJOR SOURCE FOR VOC    AND CO, THE ADDITION OF THE NEW BOILER WAS A MAJOR MODIFICA- TION REQUIRING A PSD PERMIT PRIOR TO ITS CONSTRUCTION.         ALSO, THE DEFENDANT CONSTRUCTED ANOTHER BOILER WHICHWAS    AN  AFFECTED FACILITY  FOR THE PURPOSES OF NSPS.  THE        DEFENDANT EXCEEDED THE EMISSIONS LIMIT OF AN APPLICABLE      NSPS, FAILED TO NOTIFY EPA AT LEAST 30 DAYS PRIOR TO         CONDUCTING A PERFORMANCE TEST ON THIS BOILER, FAILED TO      APPLY CEMS WHICH CONFORMED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NSPS,  AND FAILED TO SUBMIT EXCESS EMISSIONS REPORTS.                 FINALLY, THE DEFENDANT EXCEED ITS CO AND PM EMISSIONS      LIMITS IN ITS MINOR SOURCE CONSTRUCTION PERMIT.  THE PERMIT  WAS FEDERALLY ENFORCEABLE AND ISSUED BY THE LOCAL AIR        POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT UNDER THE CALIFORNIA SIP.

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