EPA v. RELIABLE PLATING CORPORATION

Case summary

Reliable Plating Corporation (Reliable Plating) owns and operates a plating facility that is an area source of hazardous air pollutant emissions at 1538 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois (the Facility), where it conducts, among other things, decorative chromium electroplating. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted an inspection of the Facility on February 7, 2013 to determine, among other things, compliance with the National Emission Standards for Chromium Emissions from Hard and Decorative Chromium Electroplating and Chromium Anodizing Tanks at 40 C.F.R. Part 63, Subpart N (Subpart N). The Facility has five decorative chromium-electroplating tanks (which Reliable Plating identifies as Tanks 2-P-16, 7-P-6, 8-P-5, 8-P-6, and 9-P-7) subject to Subpart N. On June 6, 2013, Reliable Plating provided, in response to an email from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, additional information relating to its recordkeeping practices for these five tanks. Based on information obtained during the February 7, 2013 inspection and the June 6, 2013 email to EPA, Reliable Plating failed to maintain records of the operating time of its five decorative chromium-electroplating tanks, as required by 40 C.F.R. ?? 63.4(a)(2), 63.10(b)(1), 63.340(b), 63.346(a), and 63.346(b)(11). To come into compliance, Reliable Plating will record the process operating time of these tanks and will ensure that the annual certification reports it prepares for Subpart N contain all the required information, including the total operating time of each tank during the reporting period.

Defendants (1)

• RELIABLE PLATING CORPORATIONNamed in complaintNamed in settlement

Facilities (1)

• RELIABLE PLATING CORP

  1538 W LAKE ST, CHICAGO, IL, 60607-1417

  Registry ID: 110000433870

Statutes cited

• CAA 112 — Hazardous Air Pollutants

Enforcement conclusions (1)

• RELIABLE PLATING CORPORATIONentered 2013-09-25

  Primary law: CAA

Timeline (3 milestones)

• 2013-09-25Final Order Issued
• 2013-10-17Enforcement Action Data Entered
• 2014-02-13Air Resolved