# MONARCH OIL AND SUPPLY COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1993 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `28705`
- **Case Number:** 05-1993-1605
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $81K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MONARCH OIL AND SUPPLY COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

AT SIX SEPARATE PETROLEUM UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK       LOCATIONS (GAS                                               STATIONS OR FORMER GAS STATIONS ), MONARCH OIL AND ROBERT    BAILEY, OWNER,                                               VIOLATED VARIOUS OF THE UST REGULATIONS AN FACILITY          OPERATION, INCLUDING                                         REGULATIONS ON MONITORING AND RELEASE DETECTION (40 CFR      280.41),                                                     RECORDKEEPING (40 CFR 280.45), TEMPORARY CLOSURE (40 CFR     280.72),                                                     PERMANENT CLOSURE (280.70), AND ABATEMENT MEASURES AFTER     DISCOVERY OF A                                               RELEASE (40 CFR 280.61), AND 280.63), AS WELL FINANCIAL      RESPONSIBILITY                                               REGULATIONS (40 CFR 280.93).                                 AS PART OF A NORTHWEST INDIANA INITIATIVE, REGION 5 AND IDEM UNDERTOOK JOINT ON-SITE INVESTIGATIONS OF SOME OF MONARCH    OIL'S 6 GASOLINE STATIONS LOCATED IN NORTHWEST INDIANA.      SUBSEQUENTLY, REGION 5 SUBMITTED INFORMATION REQUESTS        REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH UST REGULATIONS BY ALL 6 STATIONS.  ON DECEMBER 16, 1994, REGION 5 FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE      COMPLAINT THAT ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF UST REGULATIONS         GOVERNING RELEASE DETECTION MONITORING OF THE UST SYSTEMS,   RECORDKEEPING, AND IMPROPER TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT CLOSURE  OF CERTAIN UST'S AT VARIOUS OF THE STATI

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