# N.O.C. INC. T/A NOBLE OIL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2292`
- **Case Number:** 02-1986-0385
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- N.O.C. INC A/K/A NOBLE OIL (complaint)
## Summary

PURSUANT TO THE 8.28.86 MEMORANDUM ENTITLED  EXPANDED      CIVIL JUDICIAL REFERRAL PROCEDURES , REGION II IS            INITIATING A DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ TO COLLECT A PENALTY     ASSESSED BY EPA PURSUANT TO TSCA.  REGION II RECOMMENDS      THAT A COMPLAINT BE FILED PURSUANT TO TSCA SECT. 16A4,       15 USC 2615A4 AGAINST N.O.C. INCORPORATED, TRADING AS        NOBLE OIL COMPANY, TO COLLECT THE $40,000 FINE.  THE         COMPANY HAS EXHAUSTED ITS ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL        APPEALS; THE FINAL STEP OCCURRED IN JUNE 1986 WHEN THE       U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIED THE COMPANY'S PETITION FOR A       WRIT OF CERTIORARI.  DESPITE REMINDERS FROM EPA SINCE THEN,  NOBLE HAS STILL NOT PAID THE PENALTY.                        **************                                               FLAIRE MILLS CLAIMS HELEN AND WILKIE HAS ALL DOCUMENTATIONS  ON THIS CASE AND TO ASK THEM FOR ANY INFO NEEDED.

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