The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order/Administrative Penalty Order (CAFO/APO) with The Levy Company (Levy) for their slag processing facility formerly located on the premises of the ArcelorMittal integrated steel plant located at 250 U.S. 12 in Burns Harbor, Indiana. U.S. EPA issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to Levy for failure to comply with a 40% opacity limit established in their Title V operating permit, which is a violation of the Indiana State Implementation Plan and Section 113 of the Clean Air Act
Pursuant to the CAFO/APO, Levy will pay a settlement penalty of $37,500. As of January 1, 2012, Levy no longer operates at the ArcelorMittal facility, a circumstance unrelated to NOV. The subsequent slag contractor replaced the equipment previously operated by Levy that caused these violations.