# SERVICE GAS CO, INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19734`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0386
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SERVICE GAS CO, INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS PROPOSED ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT SEEKS TO RECOVER A    CLASS I CIVIL PENALTY OF $9,401.70 AGAINST SERVICE GAS       COMPANY, INC., ( SGCI ) FOR ITS FAILURE TO HAVE AN SPILL     PREVENTION, CONTROL AND COUNTERMEASURE ( SPCC ) PLAN FOR ITS RETAIL FOOD AND FUEL STOP KNOWN AS SENTRY FOOD MART #24 IN   WYTHEVILLE, VIRGINIA, IN VIOLATION OF THE REGULATIONS SET    FORTH AT 40 C.F.R. SECTION 112.3(B) AND PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(J) OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C.SECTION 132(J).       SGI'S FACILITY HAS BEEN OPERATING FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARSAND  HAS EIGHT UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS FOR PETROLEUM PRODUCTS W WITH AN AGGREGATE CAPACITY OF 100,000 GALLONS.  THERE IS AT  LEAST ONE STORM DRAIN AT THE FACILITY, WHICH IS LOCATED      WITHIN ONE-QUARTER MILE OF AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY TO REED      CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF THE NEW RIVER.  AN EPA INSPECTION IN   AUGUST 2000 REVEALED THAT THE FACILITY DI DNOT HAVE AN SPCC  PLAN.  EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE TO SGCI IN       DECEMBER 2000, WHICH ALLOWED THE COMPANY A SIXTY-DAY GRACE   PERIOD TO SUBMIT AN SPCC PLAN.  SGCI FAILED TO COME INTO     COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE GRACE PERIOD.  THE COMPANY EVENTUALLY  SUBMITTED AN SPCC PLAN NEARLY THREE MONTHS AFTER THE         EXPIRATION OF THE GRACE PERIOD.  AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SGCI'S  LACK OF AN SPCC PLAN AT THE TIME OF EPA'S INSPECTIONS, AND   ITS SUBSEQUENT FAILURE TO SUBMIT A PLAN DURING THE GRACE     PERIOD, THE PROGRAM HAS PROPOSED THAT SCGI BE ASSESSED A     CIVIL PENALTY OF $9,401.70.

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