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Public Notice: In the Matter of Airtech International Inc.; Proposed Settlement of CWA Class II Administrative Penalty Matter and Opportunity to Comment

How to Comment

Comments accepted through: 01/21/2020

Please provide the following information along with your comments and submit them in accordance with Part 22: Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, the Docket Number (CWA-09-2020-0011), and a concise statement of the basis for and relevant facts supporting any comment for the case to which you are commenting. Persons wishing to comment on this case, including comments on the amount or basis of the proposed penalty, are invited to submit a statement to the EPA Regional Administrator, attention of the Regional Hearing Clerk (address below), within 30 days of the date of this public notice (40 C.F.R. § 22.45(b)). All comments received within this 30-day period will be considered in the issuance of the final order.

Name, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, and Email of Regional Hearing Clerk
Steven Armsey
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street (ORC-1)
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 972-3919
r9hearingclerk@epa.gov

For More Information
Persons wishing to receive a copy of Part 22, or review the Consent Agreement and Proposed Final Order may contact the Regional Hearing Clerk identified above. Please note the Code of Federal Regulations is available online at https://www.ecfr.gov/. Unless otherwise noted the public record for the proceeding is located in the EPA Regional Office at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105, and the file will be open for public inspection during normal business hours.

Publish Date: 12/19/2019

Summary

In accordance with Section 309(g) of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g), and the Consolidated Rules of Practice at 40 C.F.R. Part 22, notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement, recorded in a Consent Agreement and Proposed Final Order (“Proposed Consent Agreement”), between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 (“EPA”), and Airtech International, Inc. (“Respondent”) to resolve the following civil administrative penalty proceeding under Section 309(g).

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­On ­­­­­­­­­­­­December 16, 2019, pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 22.13(b) and 22.18(b)(2) and (3), Complainant and Respondent entered into a Proposed Consent Agreement to simultaneously commence and conclude this CWA Class II civil administrative penalty proceeding. The Proposed Consent Agreement requires Respondent to pay to the United States an administrative civil penalty of ninety-five thousand two hundred eight dollars ($95,208) and perform an Environmental Restoration and Protection Supplemental Environmental Project (“SEP”).

Payment of this penalty and performance of the SEP will resolve EPA’s allegations that the Respondent violated Section 301(a) of the CWA by discharging industrial stormwater to waters of the United States without having filed for permit coverage and implementing best management practices to comply with the State of California’s General Permit for Storm Water Discharges Associated with Industrial Activities, NPDES Permit No. CAS000001, at Airtech International’s facility in Huntington Beach from on or around December 15, 2014 through January 14, 2019.

Docket No. CWA-09-2020-0011

Complainant

Amy C. Miller, Director
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division
U.S. EPA, Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Respondent

Airtech International Inc.
5700 Skylab Road
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Description of Business or Activity Conducted by the Respondent

Airtech International, Inc. manufactures and supplies vacuum bagging and composite tooling materials.

Alleged Violations

Between December 15, 2014 and January 14, 2019, Respondent violated CWA Section 301(a), 33 U.S.C. § 1311(a), on at least twenty-one (21) days by discharging pollutants from a point source into waters of the United States without NPDES permit authorization

Proposed Penalty

$95,208.

Applicant or Respondent

Airtech International Inc.
5700 Skylab Road
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Permit #: NPDES Permit No. CAS000001