# CHRYSLER CORP/NEWARK ASSEMBLY PLANT
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9649`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0020
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHRYSLER CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

=> CHRYSLER'S NEWARK ASSEMBLY PLANT ASSEMBLES & STORES  AUTOMOBILES PRIOR TO THEIR SHIPMENT TO DEALERS. THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS INCLUDES PHOSPHATING, WHICH IS AN ELECTROPLATING     ACTIVITY.                                                    CHRYSLER'S NEWARK FACILITY IS AN INTEGRATED PLANT BECAUSE IT COMBINES ITS ELECTROPLATING & NON-ELECTROPLATING PROCESS     WASTEWATER PRIOR TO TREATMENT.                                    => CHRYSLER SENDS THE EFFLUENT FROM ITS NEWARK FACILITY TO THE NEWARK, DELAWARE PUBLICLY OWNED COLLECTION SYSTEM.    AFTER COLLECTION, THE EFFLUENT IS SENT TO THE WILMINGTON, DE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (STP) FOR TREATMENT & DISCHARGE INTO  THE DELAWARE RIVER. HENCE, CHRYSLER'S NEWARK FACILITY IS     SUBJECT TO EPA'S ELECTROPLATING PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS AT 40 C.F.R. PART 413.                                               => A 09/20/84 LETTER FROM CHRYSLER INDICATES THAT ITS   NEWARK DELAWARE PLANT WILL NOT ACHIEVE EPA'S ELECTROPLATING  PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR LEAD, ZINC, & TOTAL METALS     UNTIL 07/15/85. THIS IS 13 MONTHS AFTER THE 06/30/84         DEADLINE REQUIRED BY 40 C.F.R. PART 413.                          => LEAD & ZINC ARE BOTH TOXIC POLLUTANTS AS DEFINED IN  SECT.307(A) OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C. SECT.1317(A). DISCHARGES   OF THESE POLLUTANTS, COUPLED WITH THE POTENTIAL INABILITY OF WILMINGTON'S STP TO REMOVE THESE POLLUTANTS ON A CONSISTENT  BASIS, POSES A THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT. A MORE DIRECT      IMPACT IS THE THREAT POSED TO SLUDGE GENE

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