# K SOLV LP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600392288`
- **Case Number:** 06-2015-3363
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- K SOLV LP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On September 29, 2015, EPA R6 entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order with K-Solv, L.P., a petrochemical products storage and handling facility located in Channelview, Texas.  The CAFO is in response to permit violations discovered during a joint EPA Region 6-National Enforcement Investigation Center inspection of the Houston Ship Channel wherein the inspectors conducted ambient air monitoring at random locations using a Geospatial Monitoring of Air Pollutants (GMAP) mobile unit and subsequent records requests.  EPA found that K-Solv failed to vent its stored acetic acid to a water scrubber as required, failed to maintain the necessary records during barge depressurizing and degassing operations, and used an unapproved monitoring method for volatile organic compounds.  Since the inspection, K-Solv has spent over $1 million to upgrade storage tanks and associated equipment and to install a new, comprehensive electronic recordkeeping system.  The company will pay a $51,000 penalty

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