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Cast-Fab, Ohio EPA Reach Settlement over Air Pollution Violations

2/5/2010

Cincinnati-based iron foundry to pay $80,000 civil penalty.


The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the iron foundry Cast-Fab, located in Cincinnati, have reached an agreement to settle air pollution control permit, rule and law violations. Cast-Fab says it has corrected the problems and is now in compliance.

 

The company agreed to pay $80,000 civil penalty.

 

In 2007 and 2008, the Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services, which serves as Ohio EPA’s contractual representative administering air pollution control programs in the greater Cincinnati area, issued the company notices of violation documenting violations of Ohio’s air pollution control laws. The notices targeted the company in its deviation and other reports.


Violations included the failure to:

•       Perform weekly visible emissions checks;

•       Record information gathered from pollution control equipment inspections;

•       Check bag houses weekly;

•       Collect and record coating information;

•       Maintain pressure drop of bag houses within required ranges;

•       Submit timely semiannual deviation reports;

•       Use low volatile organic compound content coatings; and

•       Limit coating use to three gallons or less for certain sources.