# ST. JOE MINERALS CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9616`
- **Case Number:** 03-1983-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2.20M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ST. JOE RESOURCES CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SYNOPSIS OF CASE                                                ST. JOE RESOURCES COMPANY IS A BRANCH AND THE OPERATING  COMPANY FOR THE ZINC MINING AND SMELTING ACTIVITIES OF ST.  JOE MINERALS CORPORATION.  ST. JOE RESOURCES IS ONE OF TEN   ZINC MINING AND FIVE ZINC SMELTING COMPANIES REMAINING IN    THE UNITED STATES.  THE COMPANY'S MINE IS LOCATED IN BALMAT, NEW YORK AND ITS SMELTER IS LOCATED IN MONACA, PENNSYLVANIA.  IN 1979 ST. JOE RESOURCES PRODUCED 143,000 TONS OF ZINC     METAL AND WAS THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF ZINC METAL IN THE      COUNTRY.  THE SMELTER WAS CLOSED IN DECEMBER, 1979 AND WAS   STARTED UP AGAIN IN AUGUST, 1980, AND FOR THE YEAR 1982      PRODUCED 75,000 TONS OF ZINC METAL, ZINC OXIDE AND ZINC      DUST.                                                             THE MONACA, PENNSYLVANIA SMELTER IS LOCATED ON A SITE   BORDERING THE OHIO RIVER IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, APPROXI-   MATELY 30 MILES NORTH OF PITTSBURGH.  POWER FOR THE SMELTER  IS PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY'S OWN GENERATING STATION CALLED   THE GEORGE F. WEATON GENERATING STATION.  THE STATION IS A   100-MEGAWATT STEAM ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION CONSISTING    OF TWO IDENTICAL BOILERS WHICH ARE THE SUBJECT OF THE RE-    PORT AND ARE DESIGNATED AS UNITS NO. 1 AND NO. 2.  THE PUL-  VERIZED COAL USED TO FIRE THESE BOILERS IS THE SOURCE OF     THE RESULTANT SULFUR DIOXIDE ( S02 ) EMISSIONS.  THE EXCESS  POWER FROM THE STATION, APPROXIMATELY 63%, IS SOLD TO A      LOCAL UTILITY, DUQUESNE LIGHT.

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