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Clean Air Act stationary source · ICIS-AIR PA000271194

BEFESA ZINC US INC./PALMERTON, Palmerton, PA: Clean Air Act compliance record, inspections, violations, penalties

BEFESA ZINC US INC./PALMERTON, at 900 DELAWARE AVE, Palmerton in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, is an operating major source of air pollution on EPA’s ICIS-AIR register. EPA’s file records its current violation status (ICIS-AIR’s high-priority violation field) as “Unaddressed-State”. Carbon County is on EPA’s Green Book list of areas that do not meet a national air quality standard. The status and classification are as EPA’s facility file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the source’s current standing, quarter by quarter.

Identity

Facility as filedBEFESA ZINC US INC./PALMERTON
ICIS-AIR IDPA000271194
EPA facility registry ID110000603749
Operating statusOperating
Emissions classificationMajor source
Current violation status (ICIS-AIR high-priority violation field)Unaddressed-State
Address900 DELAWARE AVE, Palmerton, PA 18071-2008
CountyCarbon County
In a nonattainment countyYes (EPA Green Book)
Industry (NAICS)Primary metal manufacturing (NAICS 3314)
SIC code3341
EPA region03

Cited to the EPA ICIS-AIR facility file (ECHO download).

Programs and pollutants

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-AIR download does not include its program, pollutant and Title V certification files, so this page does not list the Clean Air Act programs BEFESA ZINC US INC./PALMERTON is under or the pollutants it is permitted for. The programs each evaluation and violation below was recorded under are shown with it. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report lists both.

Compliance evaluations

The newest 50 of 258.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgencyPrograms
May 1, 2026PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 30, 2026PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 1, 2026PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
January 28, 2026PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
January 21, 2026PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
November 13, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 31, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 30, 2025FCE On-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 12, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 10, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 3, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 29, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 16, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 15, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 6, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 21, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
March 18, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
March 3, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 20, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 7, 2025PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
January 14, 2025PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
December 20, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
November 8, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 31, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 31, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 30, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 3, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 29, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 16, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
July 30, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
July 25, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
July 11, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 26, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 13, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 30, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 22, 2024PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 22, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 17, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 8, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 12, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
January 11, 2024PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 18, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 15, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 14, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 3, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
July 31, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 15, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 14, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 13, 2023PCE On-Site Monitoring/SamplingStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 3, 2023PCE Off-SiteStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards

Violations

A high-priority violation (HPV) is the most serious class of Clean Air Act non-compliance an agency records; a federally reportable violation (FRV) is the next step down. Each row is one determination as EPA’s violation history files it.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgencyPrograms
January 21, 2026Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
November 13, 2025Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 7, 2025HPV day-zero determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 16, 2024Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 14, 2023Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 17, 2022Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
December 16, 2021Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 26, 2021Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
February 25, 2021HPV day-zero determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
January 14, 2021Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 5, 2020Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 2, 2020Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 1, 2020Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
November 26, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
November 20, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 24, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 12, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
August 29, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
July 10, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 21, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 3, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 21, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 4, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
March 28, 2019Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
December 19, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
October 29, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 28, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
September 13, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
June 4, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
May 1, 2018Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards
April 24, 2017Earliest FRV determinationStateState Implementation Plan for National Primary and Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards

Enforcement and penalties

1 formal enforcement actions since January 1, 2017, 1 of them with a penalty filed above zero. Each penalty is shown as EPA’s formal action file states it; “Not stated” means the file gives no figure, and $0 is a disclosed zero.

DateWhat EPA recordedAgencyPenalty, as filed
January 19, 2021Administrative OrderState$726,000

Informal enforcement

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
February 7, 2025Notice of ViolationState
June 21, 2023Notice of ViolationState
April 20, 2022Notice of ViolationState
February 23, 2022Notice of ViolationState
January 5, 2022Notice of ViolationState
August 31, 2021Notice of ViolationState
February 25, 2021Notice of ViolationState
January 29, 2021Notice of ViolationState
April 15, 2020Notice of ViolationState
April 1, 2020Notice of ViolationState
December 4, 2019Notice of ViolationState
November 22, 2019Notice of ViolationState
October 7, 2019Notice of ViolationState
September 3, 2019Notice of ViolationState
July 11, 2019Notice of ViolationState
June 24, 2019Notice of ViolationState
June 4, 2019Notice of ViolationState
May 22, 2019Notice of ViolationState
April 11, 2019Notice of ViolationState
March 29, 2019Notice of ViolationState
December 20, 2018Notice of ViolationState
October 29, 2018Notice of ViolationState
October 9, 2018Notice of ViolationState
September 25, 2018Notice of ViolationState
June 8, 2018Notice of ViolationState

Stack tests

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
September 4, 2025PassState
May 29, 2025PassState
June 20, 2024PassState
June 7, 2024PassState
February 28, 2024PassState
June 16, 2023PassState
December 20, 2022PassState
July 1, 2022PassState
June 15, 2022PassState
March 31, 2022PassState
December 16, 2021PendingState
July 7, 2020PassState
January 9, 2019PassState
December 20, 2017PassState

Cited to the EPA ICIS-AIR evaluation, violation, stack test and enforcement files (ECHO download), events dated January 1, 2017 or later as loaded; up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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