# UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32401`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0391
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT, UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, OWNS AND        OPERATES AN UNDERGROUND INJECTION WELL SUBJECT TO UIC PRO-   GRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STATE OF MICHIGAN (40 C.F.R.       PART 147, SUBPART X).  U.S. EPA ISSUED A UIC PERMIT TO       UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE WELL.  THE UIC PER-  MIT REQUIRED MECHANICAL INTEGRITY TESTING OF THE WELL EVERY  FIVE YEARS.  UNDER THE APPLICABLE UIC PROGRAM, RESPONDENT    WAS REQUIRED ALSO TO COMPLY WITH ALL CONDITIONS OF THE PER-  MIT.                                                         UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA'S WELL WAS TEMPORARILY       ABANDONED FROM AT LEAST JULY 1994, THROUGH JULY 1999, BUT    NO MECHANICAL INTEGRITY TESTING WAS PERFORMED DURING THAT    PERIOD, AND NOR WERE THE OTHER TWO PERMIT REQUIREMENTS MET.  THE WELL REMAINED TEMPORARILY ABANDONED THROUGH APRIL 2000.  ON APRIL 19, 2000, UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA DEMON-    STRATED THAT THE WELL WOULD NOT ENDANGER UNDERGROUND SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER BY PERFORMING A MECHANICAL INTEGRITY TEST  ON THE WELL.  U.S. EPA ISSUED A ONE COUNT COMPLAINT ON       MARCH 27, 2000, ALLEGING RESPONDENT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY      WITH THE PERMIT AND UIC PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS/REGULATIONS.    THE PARTIES SETTLED THIS ACTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $9,900.     U.S. EPA RECEIVED PAYMENT FROM UNION OIL COMPANY OF CAL-     FORNIA ON JUNE 20, 2000.  CASE CLOSED.

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