# THONI OIL MAGIC BENZOL GAS STATIONS, INC
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20180`
- **Case Number:** 04-1983-0013
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- THONI OIL MAGIC BENZOL GAS STA OF FL INC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

BACKGROUND                                                      THIS MATTER AROSE AS A RESULT OF A RANDOM INSPECTION    CONDUCTED ON JULY 23, 1981, BY EPA CONTRACT INSPECTORS OF A  GASOLINE RETAIL OUTLET LOCATED AT 3402 SOUTH DALE MABRY,     TAMPA, FLORIDA, WHICH WAS AOWNED AND OPERATED BY THONI OIL   MAGIC BENZOL GASOLINE STATIONS OF FLORIDA, INC. (THONI OIL). DURING THIS INSPECTION, THE EPA INSPECTORS OBSERVED A THONI  OIL EMPLOYEE INTRODUCE LEADED GASOLINE INTO A BLUE 1979      CHEVROLET SIERRA PICK-UP TRUCK, IN VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL  UNLEADED GASOLINE REGULATIONS, 40 C.F.R. PART 80.  THIS      MOTOR VEHICLE HAD LABELS STATING  UNLEADED GASOLINE ONLY     AFFIXED AT THE FILLER INLET AND ON THE DASH.                      AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED AGAINST THONI    OIL ON NOVEMBER 12, 1981, WHEREIN A PENALTY OF $7,000, WAS   PROPOSED.  BEFORE FURTHER ACTION ON THIS COMPLAINT COULD     OCCUR, HOWEVER, THE DECISION IN TRANSPORTATION, INC. WE      HANDED DOWN BY EPA'S JUDICIAL OFFICER, WHICH HAD THE RESULT  OF INVALIDATING THE ADMINISTRATIVE TREATMENT OF CASES UNDER  THE UNLEADED GASOLINE REGULATIONS.                                THONI OIL WAS CONTACTED BEGINNING IN JANUARY, 1983 TO   ATTEMPT SETTLEMENT OF THIS CASE.  EPA OFFERED TO SETTLE FOR  $2,800, WHICH WAS WITHIN EPA GUIDELINES FOR SETTLEMENT OF    SUCH CASES.  ON JUNE 27, 1983, COUNSEL FOR THONI OIL AD-     VISED EPA THAT HIS CILIENT WOULD NOT SETTLE.                   CAUSE OF ACTION                     

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