# CHEVRON PRODUCTS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2013 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400113240`
- **Case Number:** 04-2013-2032
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CHEVRON PRODUCTS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

5/8/2013 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $2,894 FOR THE CERCLA VIOLATION; AND $2,892 FOR THE EPCRA VIOLATION. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

ORDER ALLEGES:
VIOLATION OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA:
RESPONDENT WAS IN CHARGE OF THE FACILITY ON JUNE 8, 2012. RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE ABOVE THE RQ AT THE FACILITY.

EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC AS SOON RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN ITS RQ AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

VIOLATION OF 304(a) OF EPCRA
ON JUNE 8, 2012, RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE ABOVE THE RQ AT THE FACILITY. EPA ALLEGES THAT THE RELEASE WAS NOT LIMITED TO EXPOSURE TO PERSONS SOLELY WITHIN THE SITE ON WHICH THE FACILITY IS LOCATED.

EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 304(a) OF EPCRA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SERC AND LEPC AS SOON AS RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SODIUM HYDROXIDE IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE RQ AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

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