The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Amercable Incorporated (“AI”) entered into an August 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See LIS No. 25-062.
The CAO provides that AI owns and operates an industrial cable manufacturing facility located in El Dorado, Arkansas.
The facility operates pursuant to an Air Permit.
DEQ personnel are stated to have conducted a compliance inspection of the facility on June 5, 2024. The inspection is stated to have covered the reporting period of May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2024.
The inspection is stated to have determined that the facility was still operating SN-03 at the facility and never installed SN-18 as a replacement boiler. This is stated to violate General Condition 16 of the Permit.
AI neither admits nor denies the factual and legal allegations contained in the CAO.
The CAO requires that the facility:
- Immediately cease operating SN-03; or
- Within thirty (30) calendar days of the effective date of this CAO, Respondent shall submit a permit modification application to DEQ to add SN-03 back to the permit.
A civil penalty of $2,500.00 is assessed.
A copy of the CAO can be downloaded here.
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