# POET BIOREFINING - LEIPSIC ETHANOL PLANT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2014 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400293519`
- **Case Number:** 05-2014-5078
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
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- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- POET BIOREFINING - LEIPSIC ETHANOL PLANT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA issued a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) commencing and concluding an action against POET Biorefining - Leipsic (POET) for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.  POET operates an ethanol production facility in Leipsic, Ohio.  The CAFO allege that POET violated volatile organic compound emission limits from its fermentation system during scrubber downtime.  The CAFO requires POET to pay a civil penalty of $110,000.

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