# SHARON STEEL CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1978 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8990`
- **Case Number:** 03-1978-0045
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SHARON STEEL CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             CD ENTERED 8/26/81 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WD     PA. AN APPLICATION UNDER SICEA WAS RECIEVED ON 10/2/81.      THE APPLICATION WAS GRANTED & FAVORABLE PRELIM FINDINGS      WERE PUBLISHED IN THE FED REGISTER ON 2/12/82. THE TWO       ITEMS STRETCHED WERE BF CASTHOUSE CONTROLS & BOF NO 3        SECONDARY EMISSION CONTROLS. MODERNIZATION INVESTMENTS       $8 MILLION IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.                            CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                AMENDMENT OF CD PURSUANT TO SEC 113(E) OF CAA.            PROPOSED REMEDY:                                                THE PROPOSED REMEDY IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE EXISTING     DECREE CONSISTENT W/THE FINDINGS & SICEA. NEG'S W/THE        SOURCE HAVE RESULTED IN A DRAFT AMENDMENT, WHICH IS UNDER    REVIEW AT DOJ & EPA HQ. THE DRAFT EXTENDS COMPLAINCE         UNTIL 12/1/84 FOR BOF & 12/31/85 FOR BF CASTHOUSE; CONST     OF MODERIZATION PROJECTS OF NEW CYLINDRICAL INGOT CASTING    FACILITY AT FARRELL BY 4/1/85; NEW STEEL STOPPING LINE AT    WARREN BY 4/1/85; & PLTY CREDIT PROJECTS OF FOUR-SIDED       FURNACE ENCLOSURE AT BOF #4 & BOF #3. SHARON MUST OPERATE    BOF #4 BELOW SIP LEVEL FOR 10 YRS & THE BOF #3 BELOW SIP     FOR 13 YRS. ALSO, AS A PLTY CREDIT, THE CO MUST OPERATE      POLLUTION CONTROL AT EAF BELOW SIP LEVEL FOR 10 YRS. PLTY    CREDIT PROJECTS OFFSET $2,460,150 IN CIVIL PLTY'S.

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