# EQUILON ENTERPRISE LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31690`
- **Case Number:** 05-1999-0362
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EQUILON ENTERPRISE, LLC. (settlement)
## Summary

ON MAY 27, 1999, U.S. EPA REGION 5 ISSUED A UNILATERAL       ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER UNDER RCRA SECTION 7003(A), 42 U.S.C    6973 (A), TO EQUILON ENTERPRISES, LLC, FOR MIGRATORY BIRD    MORTALITIES DUE TO EXPOSURE TO OILY WASTE AT SEVERAL AREAS   WITHIN THE WOOD RIVER, ILLINOLIS REFINERY.  THE ORDER RE-    QUIRES EQUILON ENTERPRISES, LLC, TO PERMANENTLY AND CON-     TINUOUSLY ELIMINATE EXPOSURE OF MIGRATORY BIRDS TO SOLID     WASTE AT AREAS KNOWN AS SITE 15, THE ASPHALT DISPOSAL AREA,  AND THE SOUTHWEST PROPERTY.                                  ON NOVEMBER 6, 1996, U.S. EPA REGION 5 ISSUED A UNILATERAL   ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER UNDER RCRA SECTION 7003(A) TO SHELL     OIL COMPANY AND SHELL WOOD RIVER REFINING COMPANY REGARDING  THE WOOD RIVER REFINERY.  IN LATE 1998, U.S. FISH AND        WILDLIFE CONTACTED U.S. EPA REGION 5 REGARDING AN ADDITIONAL AREA OF THE REFINERY WHERE MIGRATORY BIRDS WERE EXPOSED TO   OILY WASTES, AS WELL AS AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN    THE 1996 ORDER.  EQUILON ENTERPRISES, LLC, HAS WORKED        COOPERATIVELY WITH U.S. EPA REGION 5 TO ADDRESS THE AREAS    OF CONCERN.

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