# CITGO PETROLEUM CORP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1990 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35066`
- **Case Number:** 06-1990-0320
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $20K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CITGO PETROLEUM CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION OWNS OR OPERATES A FACILITY LOC- ATED IN LAKE CHARLES, LA. WHICH DISCHARGES POLLUTANTS TO THE BAYOU D'INDE, A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S.                  RESPONDENT HAS VIOLATED SECTION 301(A) OF THE ACT, BY VIOLA- TING CONDITION PART I.A OF NPDES PERMIT NO. LA0005941, WHICH CONDITION IMPLEMENTS SECTION 306 OF THE ACT AND WHICH PERMIT HAS BEEN ISSUED TO THE RESPONDENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 402 OF THE ACT, BY DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS IN EXCESS OF THE PERMIT   EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS DURING NOV. AND DEC. 1989. THIS NONCOM- PLIANCE WAS PRECIPITATED BY A LARGE VOLUME OF SOLVENT BEING  DISCHARGED INTO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO BAYOU D'INDE. THIS DISCHARGE EXCEEDED THE EFFLUENT LIMITA-   TIONS FOR PHENOLICS, TOC, BOD AND TSS AND PRECIPITATED A     FISHKILL IN BAYOU D'INDE.                                    A PENALTY OF $125,000 WAS PROPOSED.                          PERMIT NO. LA005941.                                         DOCKET OR INDEX NO. VI-90-1660.

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