# SILGAN CONTAINERS
> **Judicial** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53784`
- **Case Number:** 09-2001-0077
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SILGAN CONTAINERS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL JUDICIAL REFERRAL FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE      CLEAN AIR ACT BY SILGAN CONTAINER CORPORATION. THE VIOLATION INVOLVES EMISSIONS FROM 3-PIECE CANNING LINES WHICH EMIT     VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. THIS REFERRAL ASKS THAT THE      DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILE A COMPLAINT IN FEDERAL DISTRICT   COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST         SILGAN ONTAINERS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT (CAA) THAT OCCURRED AT SILGAN'S FACILITY   LOCATED IN STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.  REGION 9 AND THE DEPART-   MENT OF JUSTICE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS   WITH SILGAN AND, IN THE ABSENCE OF FURTHER PROGRESS, WILL BE FILING A COMPLAINT AGAINST SILGAN'S STOCKTON FACILITY.     [Note: The original facility involved was the Silgan plant in Stockton, California. On Sept. 17, 2003, five additional facilities were brought into this action by means of a supplemental referral (3 in Modesto, 1 in Kingsberg, and 1 in Riverbank).

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