# PLACID REFINING COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35922`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0045
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $200K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $5K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- PLACID REFINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTIONS 111 AND 113 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 U.S.C.         SECS. 7411 AND 7413, AS AMENDED ( CAA ), AND SECTIONS 301    AND 402 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, U.S.C. SECS. 1311 AND        1342, AS AMENDED ( CWA ).                                 2. PLACID REFINING COMPANY                                      CRUDE OIL REFINING PLANT                                     1940 LOUISIANA HWY. #1 NORTH                                 PORT ALLEN, LOUISIANA 70767                               3. THIS CASE IS PART OF A NUMBER OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL       ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVES INCLUDING: MULTI-MEDIA ENFORCE-      MENT AND THE BATON ROUGE/NEW ORLEANS CORRIDOR INITIATIVE.    THIS MULTI-MEDIA CASE INVOLVES VIOLATIONS OF THE CLEAN       AIR ACT NEW SOURCE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (NSPS) AND THE      CLEAN WATER ACT NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE ELIMINATION     SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT AT THE PLACID REFINING COMPANY. AL-    THOUGH NSPS IS DELEGATED TO THE STATE, THIS INSPECTION       WAS MADE BY EPA, AND THE ENFORCEMENT ACTION IS APPROPRI-     ATE FOR EPA. THE STATE, HOWEVER, DOES NOT HAVE AN AP-        PROVED NPDES PROGRAM AND THEREFORE EPA RETAINS ENFORCE-      MENT AUTHORITY OVER THE WATER VIOLATIONS IN THIS REFER-      RAL.                                                         AT THIS 55,000 BARREL-A DAY- FACILITY, PLACID REFINES        CRUDE OIL INTO JET FUEL, GASOLINE, PROPANE, AND OTHER        SIMILAR PRODUCTS. SINCE PURCHASING THE FACILITY, PLACID      HAS ADDED SEVERAL NEW PROCESS UNI

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