# JONES&LAUGHLIN/ALIQUIPPA
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9570`
- **Case Number:** 03-1982-0051
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JONES & LAUGHLIN- ALIQUIPPA (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             J&L STEEL CORP & ITS CORPORATE PARENTS & CO-DEF'S J&L   INDUSTRIES, INC & THE LTV CORP HAVE VIOL'D THE TERMS OF A    3/25/81 CD. THAT CD, TO WHICH THE US & ALLEGHENY CTY, PA ARE PARTIES, ADDRESSES ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AT THE DEF'S       PITT'S & ALIQUIPPA, PA STEELMAKING PLANTS. THE CD, ENTERED   3/25/81, BY JUDGE BLOCK OF THE US DIST CT FOR THE WESTERN    DIST OF PA, COMMITTED THE DEF'S TO INSTALL AIR POLLUTION     CONTROL EQUIPMENT, IMPLEMENT OTHER AIR POLLUTION CONTROL     MEASURES & ACHIEVE & DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE AT VARIOUS EMIS- SIONS SOURCES LOCATED AT DEF'S PITT'S & ALIQUIPPA WORKS. THE CD ALSO ADDRESSED WATER POLLUTION CONTROL BUT THIS REQUEST   FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THE CD ONLY CONCERNS THE DECREE'S AIR     POLLUTION ASPECTS.                                             CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                W/RESPECT TO THE ALIQUIPPA, PA STEELMAKING PLANT, DEF'S FAILED TO PLACE PURCHASE ORDERS BY 9/2/80 FOR PUSHING EMIS-  SION CONTROLS FOR THEIR A-1 COKE OVEN BATTERY. THEY ALSO     FAILED TO INITIATE ONSITE INSTALLATION OF THE CONTROLS BY    3/15/81 & TO COMPLETE CONSTR & DEMOSTRATE COMPLIANCE BY      2/15/82 & 3/15/82 RESPECTIVELY. DEF'S FAILED TO ACHIEVE &    DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE W/EMISSION STANDARDS AT THEIR BOILERS NOS 59 & 60 INTHE ALIQUIPPA PLANT'S NO 6 NORTH MILLS BOILER  HOUSE BY 1/5/81. FURTHER MORE, DEF'S FAILED TO ACHIEVE &     DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE W/EMISSION STAN

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