# ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32133`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0073
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BELLEVILLE SERVICE UNIT
- CHAMBLIN, H.E. ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST (settlement)
- ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FACILITY REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH REGULATIONS AFTER MUCH       CORRESPONDENCE AND PHONE CONTACTS.  PLEASE ASSIGN ATTORNEY F FOR IMMEDIATE ENFORCEMENT ACTION.  (B.A. CARR)               ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2000, U.S. EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE      COMPLAINT AGAINST ILLINOIS POWER COMPANY ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 311 (B)(3) OF THE CWA, 33 U.S.C.  1321(B)(3) AND  40 CFR  112.7(E)(4), FOR ITS FAILURE TO HAVE A QUICK DRAIN-  AGE SYSTEM FOR ITS TANK TRUCK LOADING/UNLOADING AREA WITH A  CONTAINMENT SYSTEM DESIGNED TO HOLD AT LEAST THE MAXIMUM     CAPACITY OF ANY SINGLE COMPARTMENT OF A TANK TRUCK USED FOR  LOADING/UNLOADING.  IN THE COMPLAINT, U.S. EPA SOUGHT A      PENALTY OF $25,000.  ILLINOIS POWER HAS AGREED TO PAY THE    PROPOSED PENALTY AND TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE RE-    GULATION WITHIN 9 MONTHS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AGREE- MENT, UNLESS IT BECOMES EXEMPT FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE   REGULATION PRIOR TO THAT TIME.                               COMPLAINANT, U.S.EPA, AND RESPONDENT, ILLINOIS POWER COM-    PANY, HAVE AGREED THAT SETTLEMENT OF THIS MATTER IS IN THE   PUBLIC INTEREST, AND THAT ENTRY OF THIS CONSENT AGREEMENT    AND FINAL ORDER ( CAFO ) WITHOUT FURTHER LITIGATION IS THE   MOST APPROPRIATE MEANS OF RESOLVING THIS MATTER.  COMPLAIN-  ANT ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT FAILED TO HAVE A QUICK DRAINAGE  SYSTEM FOR THE TANK TRUCK LOADING/UNLOADING AREA WITH A      CONTAINMENT SYSTEM DESIGNED TO HOLD AT LEASE THE MAXIMUN     CAPACITY OF ANY SINGLE COMPARTMENT O

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