Polluter of the Week (Baytown division)
The company: Bayer Material Sciences LLC, chemical manufacturing plant, Baytown, TX.
Violations: Failure to seal open-ended lines in volatile organic compound service, failure to reduce emissions of total organic hazardous air pollutants by 98 weight-percent or to a total concentration of 20 parts per millin volume, failure to collect and record data from flow indicator on the hydrogen chloride incinerator.
Penalty: $38,233
DISHONORABLE MENTION
The company: Houston Marine Services, Inc., fuel terminal, Baytown, TX.
Violation:: ; TYPE OF FACILITY: fuel terminal; failing to conduct and submit a stack test; failing to comply with Boiler Number 2's maximum firing rate of nine billion British Thermal Units per calendar year; failing to maintain fuel usage records; failing to control emissions from Tank 25-2 for Volatile Organic Compounds and from boiler number 2 for sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide; failing to conduct and submit a stack test for boiler number two; failing to accurately represent, in Permit Number 21098, annual throughput rates; and failing to submit the annual report of monthly gasoline throughput.
Penalty: $17,812
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I wish some of this "chump change" in fines would come to the aid of the folks that it effects.
I'm also wondering of the total poundage (is that a word?) of crap per year that escapes into the air, since most of it seems to blow in my direction.
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