# GE Oil & Gas/Lufkin
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600832381`
- **Case Number:** HQ-2016-8003
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- GE Oil & Gas/Lufkin (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

GE Oil & Gas/Lufkin's disclosures were made pursuant to EPA's  Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations  ( Audit Policy ), 65 Fed. Reg. 19,618 (April 11, 2000), and its  Interim Approach to Applying the Audit Policy to New Owners  ( Interim Approach ), 73 Fed. Reg. 44,991 (August 1, 2008).

On March 10, 2014, GE Oil & Gas, on behalf of itself and Lufkin, disclosed that it had failed to meet certain requirements of the CAA Section 603, 42. U.S.C. ? 7671b and the regulations found at:

1)	 40 C.F.R. Parts 82.162, requiring certification to the EPA that recycling and recovery equipment has been acquired and is in use;
2)	40 C.F.R. Part 82.156(i), requiring facilities to maintain records demonstrating compliance with leak rate calculation, repair, and follow-up leak verification testing;
3)	40 C.F.R. 82.166(o), requiring additional record-keeping relating to leak detection, equipment repair and/or retirement, and
4)	40 C.F.R. 82.156(i)(5), requiring maintenance of records demonstrating compliance with leak rate calculation and repair requirements for comfort cooling units.

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