# MURPHY OIL U.S.A.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `27372`
- **Case Number:** 05-1990-0087
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $14K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MURPHY OIL U.S.A. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

USEPA FILED THE COMPLAINT IN THIS MATTER ON 4/12/90,     ALLEGING IN 2 COUNTS THAT MURPHY OIL HAD VIOLATED 40 CFR     SECTIONS 761.30(D) AND 761.40(A) BY FAILING TO REDUCE THE    PCB CONCENTRATION IN ITS HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM TO LESS THAT   50 PARTS PER MILLION BY 7/1/84, BY FAILING TO TEST ITS HEAT  TRANSFER SYSTEM FOR PCBS, AND BY FAILING TO PROPERLY MARK    ITS HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM.  THE MONSANTO COMPANY HAD FLUSHED  THE PCBS FROM MURPHY OIL'S HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM IN 1972 AND, THEREFORE, MURPHY OIL BELIEVED THAT THERE WERE NO PCBS       PRESENT AT ITS FACILITY. AFTER USEPA FILED ITS COMPLAINT,    MURPHY OIL INVESTIGATED OTHER AREAS OF THE FACILITY AND      FOUND THAT THERE WAS EXTENSIVE PCB CONTAMINATION OF, AMONG   OTHER THINGS, SOILS AND BUILDINGS.  CONSEQUENTLY, AT A COST  EXCEEDING $1,000,000, MURPHY OIL COMPLETED A COMPREHENSIVE   CLEANUP OF PCB CONTAMINATION AT ITS RHINELANDER, WI          FACILITY.

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