# COMMERCIAL OIL > **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal ## Case - **Activity ID:** `25296` - **Case Number:** 05-1984-0054 - **Type:** Judicial - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal - **Penalty assessed:** — - **Cost recovery:** — - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** N ## Defendants - COMMERCIAL OIL SERVICE, INC. (complaint) ## Summary BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE CASE COMMERCIAL OIL SERVICE, INC. (COMMERCIAL OIL), AN OHIO CORPORATION, OWNS AND OPERATES A FACILITY IN OREGON, OHIO, WHICH HANDLES WASTE OIL AND RE-REFINES SOLVENTS. COMMER- CIAL OIL HAS VIOLATED SECTION 6(E) OF THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA), 15 U.S.C. SECTION 2605(E), BY STORING OIL CONTAMINATED WITH POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCB) IN AN OPEN LAGOON AT ITS FACILITY. THE STORAGE IN THE LAGOON DOES NOT SATISFY THE STORAGE REQUIREMENTS OF 40 C.F.R. SECTION 76 1.65(B). THE OHIO EPA FIRST DISCOVERED THE PCB CONTAMINA- TION IN THE LAGOON IN SEPTEMBER 1983, BUT COMMERCIAL OIL HAS NOT ACTED TO REMEDY THE VIOLATION. A JUDICIAL ORDER IS NEEDED TO ENSURE THAT THESE PCB'S ARE REMOVED AND PROPERLY DISPOSED. SEE 11/29/84 MEMO FOR NEWLY DISCOVERED FACTS AND, THERE- FORE, MORE EASILY PROVED VIOLATIONS, INCLUDING UNLAWFUL PROCESSING. MAGNITUDE OF CLEANUP IS NOT 10,000 GALLONS AS PREVIOUSLY SUPPOSED, BUT 4 MILLION. <> --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*