# Charnock Basin MTBE Site
> **Judicial** · FY2004 · — · Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `132711`
- **Case Number:** 09-2004-0412
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Specified Cost Recovery
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Best California Gas, Ltd. (complaint) (settlement)
- ChevronTexaco Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Equilon Enterprises LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Exxon Mobil Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Exxon Mobil Oil Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Mobil Oil Corporation (complaint) (settlement)
- Shell Oil (complaint) (settlement)
- Shell Oil Products Company LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Shell Pipeline Company LP (complaint) (settlement)
- TRM Company (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

This is a Civil Judicial Referral pursuant to RCRA section 9003(h)(6) for cost recovery from Shell Oil Company, et al.  The case involves liability for expenses incurred by EPA following discharges from underground storage tank systems of gasoline containing MTBE and other oxygenates. The referral seeks filing of a civil action and approval of a Consent Decree that has been negotiated with the proposed defendants for recovery of $1.5 million in past costs.

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