Charter Steel is located in an environmental justice area (priority 1 ranking) and violated emission limits established in accordance with: 1) NSPS for Steel Plants at 40 C.F.R. ? 60 Subpart AAa; 2) the Ohio State Implementation Plan (Ohio SIP); and 3) Charter Steel?s Permit-to-Install. We discovered these violations during a May 11, 2010 inspection and from information submitted pursuant to a Section 114 request sent on August 19, 2010. This ACO resolves violations alleged in a notice of violation/finding of violation issued on March 31, 2011 and finding of violation issued on November 28, 2011.
The ACO requires Charter Manufacturing Company, Inc., d/b/a Charter Steel to:
Submit an application to Ohio Environmental Protection Agency requesting the conditions and emissions rates, associated with stainless steel production, be removed from Title V and other air permits;
Comply with the melt shop baghouse pressure drop operational and monitoring requirements specified in the ACO; and
Keep the door at the west end of the melt shop shall closed, except for times when a scrap car needs to enter or exit the melt shop.
Use an automated alert system, that will send a text message to personnel whenever the melt shop door is open for more than 5 minutes.
The following are required by the ACO, and have already been completed by Charter Manufacturing Company, Inc., d/b/a Charter Steel.
By August 2010, Charter Steel completed modification of the existing canopy area to better