# WHEELING PITTSBURGH STEEL CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9846`
- **Case Number:** 03-1985-0050
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL CORPORATION (complaint)
## Summary

THIS REFERRAL PERTAINS TO THE U.S. FILING A MOTION FOR     CIVIL CONTEMPT & TO ENFORCE JUDGEMENT W/RESPECT TO CERTAIN   VIOLATIONS BY W-P OF THE 1983 AMMENDED CD AT THEIR FOLLANS-  BEE, VW SINTER PLANT. THIS PLANT WAS GRANTED  STRETCHED  COM PLIANCE SCHEDULES IN 1983 UNDER THE SICEA.                     ON 12/27/84, W-P SUBMITTED TO EPA A SINTER PLANT EMISSION  CONTROL PLAN. THIS PLAN WAS ACTUALLY A  BUBBLE  PROPOSAL, &  NOT AN EMISSION CONTROL PLAN REQUIRING THE INSTALLATION OF   POSITIVE CONTROLS. EPA BY LETTERS OF 4/23/85 & 8/1/85, IN-   FORMED W-P THAT THEIR SUBMISSION WAS INADEQUATE & THAT THE   TERMS OF THE CD HAD NOT BEEN MET.                              ON 4/16/85, W-P FILED FOR PROTECTION UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF   BANKRUPTCY CODE. THE UNIONS STRUCK & SETTLED RESPECTIVELY ON 7/21/85 & 10/28/85. W-P ON 7/30/85 & 8/12/85, NOTIFIED EPA   THAT THEY COULD NOT MEET CERTAIN COMPLIANCE SCHEDULES DUE TO THE STRIKE & AS A RESULT THEY WERE CLAIMING A FORCE MAJEURE  PURSUANT TO PART XXXIX OF AMENDED CD. W-P DID NOT ALLEGE A   FORCE MAJEURE W/REGARD TO THE FOLLANSBEE SINTER PLANT.         W-P, AS A RESULT OF THEIR INACTION & NONCOMPLIANCE, WILL   NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLY W/SINTER PLANT EMISSION LIMITATIONS BY 12/31/85. THE SICEA EXPRESSLY PROHIBITS THE EXTENSION OF CD  COMPLIANCE DATES BEYOND 12/31/85.ADDITIONALLY, EPA CAN NOT   STAY COMPLIANCE W/THE SINTER PLANT SIP EMISSIONS STANDARD    BECAUSE W-P IS ATTEMPTING TO GET A  BUBBLE  APPROVED BY WV.    REG 3 RECOMMENDS THAT STIPULATED & C

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