# LILHEAD CORP
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20186`
- **Case Number:** 04-1983-0019
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- LILHEAD CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                              THIS MATTER AROSE AS A RESULT OF A RANDOM INSPECTION    CONDUCTED ON JULY 14, 1981, BY EPA CONTRACT INSPECTORS OF A  GASOLINE RETAIL OUTLET LOCATED AT 3990 WEST OAKLAND PARK     BOULEVARD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, WHICH WAS OWNED AND     OPERATED BY LILHEAD CORPORATION (LILHEAD).  DURING THIS      INSPECTION, THE EPA INSPECTORS DISCOVERED A GASOLINE PUMP    USED TO DESPENSE LEADED GASOLINE WHICH WAS EQUIPPED WITH AN  UNDERSIZED NOZZLE SPOUT, AND DOCUMENTED THE ABSENCE OF THE   REQUISITE SIGN WARNING AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF LEADED    FUEL INTO UNLEADED ONLY MOTOR VEHICLES.                           AN ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT WAS ISSUED AGAINST LILHEAD  ON NOVEMBER 12, 1981, WHEREIN A PENALTY OF $1,500 WAS PRO-   POSED.  BEFORE FURTHER ACTION ON THIS COMPLAINT COULD OCCUR,  HOWEVER, THE DECISION IN TRANSPORTATION, INC. WAS HANDED    DOWN BY EPA'S JUDICIAL OFFICER, WHICH HAD THE RESULT OF IN-  VALIDATING THE ADMINISTRATIVE TREATMENT OF CASES UNDER THE   UNLEADED GASOLINE REGULATIONS.                                    LILHEAD WAS CONTACTED BEGINNING IN LATE 1982 TO ATTEMPT  SETTLEMENT OF THIS CASE.  EPA OFFERED TO SETTLE FOR $450,   BUT, ON JULY 5, 1983, COUNSEL FOR LILHEAD ADVISED HIS CLIENT  WOULD NOT SETTLE.                                             CAUSE OF ACTION                                                 A CIVIL ACTION SHOULD BE BROUGHT IN U.S. DISTRICT       COURT AGAINST LILHEAD FOR VIOLATIONS O

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