# ERICKSON REFINING CORP - PORT NECHES, TX
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1987 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34298`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0502
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ERICKSON REFINING CORP. (complaint)
## Summary

SUBJECT:  COMPLIANCE ORDER AND NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR               HEARING FILED AGAINST ERICKSON REFINING CORPORA-             TION, RCRA DOCKET NO RCRA VI-630-H.                BACKGROUND:                                                  *                                                            ERICKSON REFINING CORPORATION IS A PETROLEUM REFINERY THAT   MANUFACTURES NAPHTHA, PETROLEUM DISTILLATES AND FUEL OILS AS ITS PRINCIPLE PRODUCTS.  THROUGH THE PROCESS OF REFINING,    ERICKSON REFINING CORPORATION GENERATES API SEPERATOR SLUDGE (K051) AND LEADED TANK BOTTOMS (K052) WHICH ARE IDENTIFIED   BY EPA AS LISTED HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM A SPECIFIC SOURCE      UNDER 40 CFR 261.32.                                         *                                                            ON MARCH 19-20, 1987, ERICKSON REFINING CORP, LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF BLACK AND LEE STREETS, PORT NECHES, TX, WAS        INSPECTED BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE EPA.  THE INSPECTION REPORT  SHOWED THAT ERICKSON REFINING CORPORATION DID NOT CERTIFY    COMPLIANCE WITH THE LOIS PROVISIONS FOR A LAND DISPOSAL      FACILITY.  THE EPA WILL SHOW THAT ERICKSON REFINING CORP     HAS VIOLATED THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS:                      *                                                            1.  OPERATING WITHOUT A PERMIT AND OPERATING WITHOUT INTERIM     STATUS;                                                  2.  INCORRECT NOTIFICATION;                                  3.  FAILURE TO PREPARE A CLOSURE PLA

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