# NATIONAL PLATING COMPANY, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `92`
- **Case Number:** 01-1985-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NATIONAL PLATING COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SUMMARY:                                                          THIS CIVIL ACTION IS FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF & PENALTIES  UNDER SECT 309(B) & (D) OF CWA, 33 USC 1319(B) & (D), FOR    VIOLATIONS OF FED PRETRMT STDS TO WHICH THE CORP IS SUBJ AS  AN INDUSTRIAL USER OF A POTW.                                     NATIONAL DISCHARGES BETWEEN 30,000 - 51,000 GPD OF IN-  DUSTRIAL WSTWTR FROM ITS ELECTROPLATING & POLISHING FACILITY IN PROVIDENCE, RI, INTO THE NARRAGANSETT BAY COMMISSION      (NBC) POTW AT FIELDS POINT.  THE NBC HAS BEEN OPERATING UN-  DER EPA-APPROVED PRETRMT PGM SINCE SEPT 14, 1984.            DESCRIPTION OF VIOLATIONS:                                        1) NATIONAL IS IN VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITED  DSCHGE STDS, 40 CFR SECT 403.5(B)(2), & SECT 307(D) OF CWA,  33 USC 1317(D), BECAUSE IT DISCHGD WSTWTR W/A PH LOWER THAN  5.0 INTO THE NBC POTW, WHICH IS NOT DESIGNED TO ACCOMODATE   SUCH DSCHGS.                                                      2) NATIONAL IS IN VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL CATEGORICAL STDS, 40 CFR PART 413, & SECT 307(D) OF CWA.  SPECIFICALLY,  IT HAS VIOLATED THE LIMITS FOR DISCHARGES SET FORTH IN THE   COMMON METALS & PRECIOUS METALS SUBCATEGORIES, 40 CFR SECT'S 413.14(C) & 413.24(C).  SAMPLING HAS SHOWN THAT NATIONAL IS  DISCHARGING ELECTROPLATING PROCESS WSTWTR THAT EXCEEDS THE   DAILY MAX LIMITS FOR CN, CU, NI, ZN, & TOTAL METALS IN THESE 2 SUBCATEGORIES.                                                  3)NATIONAL IS IN VIOLATION OF R

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