# MOBIL OIL CO - JOLIET REFINERY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29768`
- **Case Number:** 05-1996-0320
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $125K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MOBIL OIL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

PARTICULATE MATTER, OPACITY AND CO EMISSIONS, LIMIT          VIOLATIONS.                                                  REGION V FILED THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT IN THIS MATTER   ON OCTOBER                                                   25, 1995.  THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT THE REFINERY'S         EMISSIONS FROM THE                                           FLUIDIZED CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT (FCCU) AND CO BOILERS      EXCEEDED THE 30                                              PERCENT OPACITY LIMIT SET FORTH AT 35 ILL. ADMIN. CODE SEC.  212.123(B)                                                   ON 9 DAYS DURING OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1994; THAT   STACK TESTING                                                INDICATED THAT IN ONE OF THREE TEST RUNS PERFORMED, MOBIL    EXCEEDED THE                                                 ALLOWABLE EMISSION RATE CALCULATED BY THE METHOD SET FORTH   IN 36 ILL.                                                   ADMIN. CODE SEC. 212.381; THAT STACK TESTING INDICATED THAT  MOBIL                                                        EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE 200 PPM EMISSION CONCENTRATION SET    FORTH IN 35                                                  ILL. ADMIN. CODE SEC. 216.361; AND THAT MOBIL FAILED TO      COMPLY WITH AN                                               EPA SECTION 114 INFORMATION REQUEST BY FAILING TO CONDUCT    THE DECEMBER                                                 1994 EMISSIONS TESTING UNDER NORMAL 

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