# JONES&LAUGHLIN/PITTSBURGH
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9583`
- **Case Number:** 03-1982-0068
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JONES & LAUGHLIN-PITTSBURGH (complaint)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE:                                             J&L STEEL & ITS CORP PARENTS & CO-DEF'S J&L INDUSTRIES, INC & THE LTV CORP HAVE VIOL'D THE TERMS OF A 3/25/82 CD.    THAT CD, TO WHICH THE US & ALLEGHENY CTY, PA ARE PARTIES,    ADDRESSES ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AT THE DEF'S PITT'S & ALI-  QUIPPA, PA STEELMAKING PLANTS. THE CD, ENTERED ON 3/25/81,   BY JUDGE ALAN N. BLOCK OF THE US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE      WESTERN DISTRICT OF PA, COMMITTED THE DEF'S TO INSTALL AIR   POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES & ACHIEVE & DEMONSTRATE COMPLI-   ANCE AT VARIOUS EMISSIONS SOURCES LOCATED AT DEF'S PITT'S &  ALIQUIPPA WORKS. THE DECREE ALSO ADDRESSED WATER POLLUTION   CONTROL BUT THIS REQUEST FOR ENFORCEMENT OF THE CD ONLY CON- CERNS THE DECREE'S AIR POLLUTION ASPECTS.                      CAUSE OF ACTION:                                                W/RESPECT TO THE PITT'S PA STEELMAKING PLANT, DEF'S     FAILED TO ACHIEVE & DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE W/THE MASS EMIS-  SION STANDARD FOR PUSHING P-1, P-2, P-3N, P-3S, P-4 & THE    VISABLE EMISSION STANDARD FOR PUSHING ON BATTERIES P-3N,     P-3S & P-4 BY 4/1/82. THEY ALSO FAILED TO OPERATE THEIR COKE OVEN GAS DESULFURIZATION FACILITY IN COMPLIANCE W/EMISSION   STANDARDS BY 4/25/81, & FAILED TO OPERATE THE BOILERS IN     THEIR SOUTHSIDE & BY-PRODUCTS BOILER HOUSES IN COMPLIANCE    W/EMISSIONS STANDARDS BY 4/25/81. THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT   OF THESE FAILURES IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE A NEARBY SO2 MONI-  TOR STATION SHOWED READINGS BELOW THE 

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