# SIMPSON PAPER COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1989 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52161`
- **Case Number:** 09-1989-0008
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2.96M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SIMPSON PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
- SIMPSON TIMBER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A PROPOSED ACTION UNDER SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN   WATER ACT AGAINST SIMPSON PAPER COMPANY.  SIMPSON OPERATES A PULP MILL ON THE NORTH SPIT OF HUMBOLDT BAY IN FAIRHAVEN CA. NEAR EUREKA.  SIMPSON DISCHARGES WASTE WATER PURSUANT TO A   NPDES PERMIT INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.                           SIMPSON HAS CONTINUOUSLY VIOLATED VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF    ITS NPDES PERMIT EVER SINCE ITS PERMIT WAS FIRST ISSUED IN   1977.  IN 1978, EPA SUED SIMPSON FOR VIOLATION OF THE BOD    AND PH EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS INVOLVED IN THE 1978 LITIGATION  WERE MODIFIED BY EPA IN 1987.  SIMPSON CONTINUED TO VIOLATE  VARIOUS EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS IN THE 1977 AND 1987 PERMITS,   MOST NOTABLY TOXICITY.  EPA ISSUED SIMPSON AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ON SEPT. 20, 1988 TO REQUIRE IMMEDIATE      COMPLIANCE WITH THE PERMITS EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS.  SIMPSON   CONTINUES TO VIOLATE THE EFFLUENT TOXICITY LIMITATIONS OF    ITS 1987 PERMIT.                                               THIS REPORT EVALUATES THE PROGRESS MADE TO DATE BY THE     CITY OF LA IN SATISFYING THE REQ. OF THE AMENDED CONSENT     DECREE (ACD), ENTERED IN THE US DISTRICT COURT FOR THE       CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CA ON FEB. 19, 1987.  THIS REPORT        CONSIDERS IN TURN EACH PROVISION OF THE ACD AND THE          STATUS OF TEH CITY'S COMPLIANCE WITH IT.                       EPA REGION 9 SEEKS TO ASSESS A SUBSTANTIAL CIVIL PENALTY   AND SEEKING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND REQUIRE TIMELY COMPLIANCE  WITH THE TOXICITY LIMITS IN SIMPSON'S 

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