# SENTRY GAS COMPANY, INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19435`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0054
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- SENTRY GAS COMPANY, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2001, REGION III ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE   COMPLAINT AGAINST SERVICE GAS COMPANY, INC., ( SGCI )        PERTAINING TO A VIOLATION OF THE OIL POLLUTION PREVENTION    REGULATIONS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(J) OF THE    CLEAN WATER ACT, AS AMENDED, ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTION      1321(J).  THE VIOLATION PERTAINS TO SGCI'S FAILURE TO        PREPARE A SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL AND COUNTERMEASURE       ( SPCC ) PLAN FOR ITS RETAIL FOOD AND FUEL STOP, SENTRY      FOOD MART # 39 IN ROANOKE, VIRGINIA.  SENTRY FOOD MART # 39  HAS AT LEAST THREE UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS FOR PETROLEUM   PRODUCTS WITH AN AGGREGATE CAPACITY OF 44,000 GALLONS. THERE IS AT LEAST ONE STORM DRAIN AT THE FACILITY, AND THE         FACILITY IS LOCATED WITHIN ONE-HALF (1/2) MILE OF BOTH DEER  BRANCH CREEK AND CARVIN CREEK.  THE STORM DRAIN DISCHARGES   INTO DEER BRANCH CREEK WHICH FLOWS INTO CARVIN CREEK WHICH   IS A TRIBUTARY OF THE ROANOKE RIVER.                             THE OIL POLUTION PREVENTION REGULATIONS REQUIRE OWNERS   AND OPERATORS OF ONSHORE PETROLEUM PRODUCT STORAGE           FACILITIES, THAT COULD REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO DISCHARGE   OIL IN HARMFUL QUANTITIES INTO OR UPON THE NAVIGABLE WATERS  OF THE UNITED STATES OR ADJOINING SHORELINES, TO PREPARE     SPCC PLANS.  THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED         PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C.    SECTION 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AND PROPOSED A CLASS I PENALTY OF  $6,267.80.  PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(

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